Ophira Ginsburg: Fantastic week in Geneva with colleagues and friends from near and far

Ophira Ginsburg shared a post on X:

“It’s a wrap!!

Fantastic week in Geneva with colleagues and friends from near and far at WCC2024.

A week of collaboration, commitment, and community. (Yes I love alliteration)

Highlights for me:

1. Meeting new people- especially early career scientists from different low and middle income countries – listening and learning about their aspirations & connecting them with others to offer mentorship and guidance

2. Spending time with folks dropping into the U.S. NCI National Cancer Institute (NCI) booth – meeting other cancer researchers, advocates, and research funders from around the globe, all focused on the same thing – reducing the cancer burden – advancing the best research to save lives, and to help make the lives of people living with cancer better..

3. Our plenary session on Women, power, and cancer – thanks to Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) for being such a valued partner and giving us the opportunity to share our progress after one year since we launched with the publication in The Lancet.”

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Ophira Ginsburg is a Canadian medical oncologist, humanitarian, and global cancer advocate. Currently, she is the Senior Scientific Officer and Senior Advisor for Clinical Research at the US NCI’s Center for Global Health. Formerly based at the University of Toronto, Canada, she was a Medical Officer at the World Health Organization (WHO) Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and has served as an ad hoc consultant to several UN agencies. She is the co-chair of The Lancet Commission on Women and Cancer.