Past Global Health Events

ICSN will host its network meeting in Turin, Italy, on June 21-23, 2023. With the theme, 'Cancer Screening: In the Present, the Future,' the meeting will have session topics dedicated to equity in cancer screening, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on screening, integration of primary and secondary prevention, new emerging screening programs, among others. The call for abstracts is open from January 18 to March 6, 2023.

This is a pre-application webinar for the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), RFA-CA-24-005, Cancer Prevention, Detection, Diagnosis, and Treatment Technologies. NCI program staff will provide an overview of the funding initiative and answer questions from potential applicants. Participation in the webinar, although encouraged, is optional and is not required for the submission of an application in response to this NOFO.

Dr. Ophira Ginsburg will preview the upcoming Lancet Commission on Women and Cancer during the "Meet the Press: Lancet Commissions for Global Health Impact" session at the Global Health Catalyst (GHC) Summit. Dedicated to catalyzing high-impact international collaborations and initiatives to eliminate health disparities in the USA and globally, the Summit's theme is "Cancer Moonshot 2.0: win-win collaborations to extend the Cancer Moonshot globally." 

Ms. Linsey Eldridge will present Underrepresentation of Low- and Middle-Income Country Affiliated Authors in NCI-Supported Cancer Research at the 2023 Annual Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting

Find NCI Center for Global Health staff presenting at the International Papillomavirus Conference 2023.

Presentation of the Global Oncology Survey of NCI-Designated Cancer Centers at AACR 2023 followed by a meet the expert's session of Q & A.

The 11th Annual Symposium on Global Cancer Research (ASGCR) will be held virtually April 4, – April 6, 2023. The theme of the Symposium is “Closing the Research-to-Implementation Gap” and the objectives of this virtual Symposium are to: (1) provide a venue for the global oncology research community to exchange information and identify potential areas for collaboration; (2) develop strategic priorities for advancing the field of global oncology; (3) share initiatives that are reducing the burden of cancer in low resource settings; and 4) create opportunities for researchers and program implementers from low resource settings to present their work.

Symposium highlighting the successful training exchanges involving the NCI intramural program over many years with colleagues in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

In this seminar, NCI K08 Awardee Dr. Gibson will discuss his research from the following publication: Donor Clonal Hematopoiesis and Recipient Outcomes After Transplantation.

Register and join a World Cancer Day Panel hosted by the Department of Epidemiology, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. A keynote address will be given by Wilfred Ngwa, PhD, MSc Chair of the Lancet Oncology Commission for Sub-Saharan Africa, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology & Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins Medicine.