Nazik Hammad: So proud to be your mentor Alafi

Nazik Hammad shared a post by POHER (Pan-African Organization for Health Education and Research) on X/Twitter, adding:

”So proud to be your mentor, Alafi Francis Nixon Fulli, together with your other amazing mentor Akwi Asombang.

This study is even more important after collapse of cancer care in Sudan. We need workforce and cancer care in entire region: Our only hope to survive inequities and conflicts in East Africa.”

Quoting POHER‘s post:

”POHER Scholar Alum, Alafi Francis Nixon Fulli  presented at the recently concluded Medical Women’s Association of Zambia – MWIA conference May 2024. PROBLEM: Shortage of oncologists in South Sudan ( in Africa in general). Are medical students selecting careers in oncology?”

Source: Nazik Hammad/X and POHER/X

Nazik Hammad is a Sudanese Canadian Professor of medical oncology, at Saint Michael Hospital, Department of Medicine,  University of Toronto .  Her academic work and research interests include medical education and workforce development in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Other research and academic interests include value-based cancer care, global and local inequities and disparities in cancer, global health and global oncology,  women as health care professionals and cancer in conflict zones. Together with colleagues in Africa she led the first Choosing Wisely Africa initiative. She is a co-author in the Lancet Oncology commission for Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa and is a commissioner in the Lancet Commission on Women, Power and Cancer.

Nazik Hammad is a Professor at the Division of Hematology and Oncology, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto. She is the Chair of the Education and Training Committee of the African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC). Dr. Hammad is a visiting professor at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. She is the co-chair of the Network for Advancing Black Learners (Medical Students and Residents) in Ontario. She is the former Director of Global Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University. Dr. Hammad is the recipient 2019 Harvard Global Health Catalyst Distinguished Young Leader Award.