Monday, October 26, 2020
8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Felicia Knaul, PhD
Felicia Knaul, PhD, Director, Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas and Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences at the Miller School of Medicine
Introduced by: Mary K. Gospodarowicz MD, FASTRO, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
During this Keynote Address Dr. Felicia Knaul will draw on her long experience in the global health arena to help suggest potential solutions to the various hurdles encountered in implementing cancer screening, prevention and treatment programs in low to middle income countries (LIMC).
Closing the global cancer divide is a health and equity imperative. It is also a path to strengthening health systems. This duality means that improved access to cancer care and control is both a catalyst and a necessary outcome of strengthening health systems to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Strong health systems and social protection platforms are key elements of an effective cancer control strategy, especially in low and middle-income countries. At the same time, improving access to cancer prevention, treatment, survivorship and palliation can generate overall health system strengthening. A dualistic model promotes synergy rather than false dichotomies and helps identify interwoven opportunities for simultaneously closing cancer divides and strengthening health systems. Examples of the diagonal approach – a focus on synergies that provides opportunities to tackle disease-specific priorities while addressing systemic gaps, rather than focusing on either disease-specific vertical or horizontal-systemic programs – provide concrete opportunities for action.
After her presentation Dr. Knaul and Dr. Gospodarowicz will sit down for a fireside chat and further discuss the specifics related to radiation oncology in the global setting.
An international health economist and expert in Latin American health systems and social sectors, Felicia Marie Knaul, PhD, is director of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas and a professor at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. She is also a full member of Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and holds several secondary appointments. Knaul most recently served as director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative (HGEI) and associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Knaul works as both a researcher and advocate on cancer globally. After she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, Knaul founded the Mexican non-profit organization, Cáncer de Mama: Tómatelo a Pecho, a program that undertakes and promotes research, advocacy, awareness and early detection initiatives for breast cancer in Latin America. Her journey is documented in her books Tómatelo a Pecho (Grupo Santillana, 2009) and Beauty without the Breast (Harvard University Press/ Harvard Global Equity Initiative, 2013), and has been featured in Reforma, The Miami Herald, The Lancet, Science, WHO Bulletin, Newsweek en Español and Cancer Today. She also served as the President of the Latin American Union against Women’s Cancers (2016-18), a coalition of 22 Latin American women’s cancers NGOs from 11 countries.
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Monday, October 26, 2020
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Ibram X. Kendi, PhD
Ibram X. Kendi PhD, Director, Center for Antiracist Research, Boston University
Interviewed by: Curtiland Deville Jr, MD, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Join us for this exciting and thought-provoking Keynote Address with Professor Ibram X. Kendi. During this session radiation oncologist Dr. Curtiland Deville, Jr. will interview Professor Kendi about various issues related racial inequity, awareness through self-examination, and its relation to healthcare. In this discussion Dr. Kendi and Deville will examine the link between our social and health care systems and the importance of eradicating racism in healthcare in American and across the world. By sharing his expertise in antiracism, this session aims to inspire you to become better healthcare professionals who are prepared to address to address the needs of all patient communities regardless of their race.
Ibram X. Kendi is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, professor of history and international studies, and the Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. Professor Kendi is an Ideas Columnist at The Atlantic, and a correspondent with CBS News. He is the author of four books including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won National Book Award for Nonfiction, and the New York Times bestsellers How to Be an Antiracist and STAMPED: Racism, Antiracism, and You, co-authored with Jason Reynolds. His newest book, Antiracist Baby, was published on June 16th, 2020.
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