Bente Mikkelsen: How we can come together to turn commitment into reality and eliminate cervical cancer

Ophira Ginsburg shared a post by Bente Mikkelsen on LinkedIn, adding:

“Congratulations! And thank you for everything you’ve done and continue to do to advance women’s health equity, including the elimination of cervical cancer!”

Quoting Bente Mikkelsen:

“Amazing session this morning to talk to countries, experts and advocates about how we can come together to turn commitment into reality and eliminate cervical cancer. Engaging conversation from the panel: Benda Kithaka, Karen Nakawala, Lisa Huang, Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga, Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu. They shared some of the challenges we face in advocacting for strong actions on cervical cancer, but also highlighted the amazing works that are done in countries, including engaging religious leaders to deliver important messages on HPV vaccination and the prevention of cervical cancer.

Thank you all for this important conversation. And we look forward to seeing all of your work highlighted this year on November 17 Cervical Cancer elimination day of action.”

Source: Ophira Ginsburg/LinkedIn and Bente Mikkelsen/LinkedIn

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.

Bente Mikkelsen is the  Director of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD) at WHO Headquarters in Geneva and was previously Director for Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion in Europe. She also headed the secretariat for the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on Noncommunicable Diseases. Trained as a Gynecologist and Obstetrician, her primary focus now is aligning efforts toward achieving Sustainable Development Goals by reducing premature deaths from NCDs and employing innovation and collaboration across sectors.