Nazik Hammad: I had the chance to discuss the statistical and humanitarian invisibility of African IDPs and refugees

Nazik Hammad shared on X:

“Yesterday, at the 2024 Global Health Catalyst Summit at Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC, I had the chance to discuss the statistical and humanitarian invisibility of African IDPs and refugees and the cancer care and NCD needs of 40 to 60 million African displaced persons.”

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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.