Isabel Mestres: What Real Transformation Looks Like
Isabel Mestres, CEO of the City Cancer Challenge (C/Can), shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Last Friday in Nairobi, something powerful happened.
City Cancer Challenge (C/Can) brought together 70+ leaders: health professionals, policymakers, civil society, and people with lived experience, to co-create practical solutions that make cancer care more gender-responsive.
Why? Because when we apply a gender lens to cancer care, we get better outcomes for patients. We surfaced real barriers women face in Nairobi: financial dependence, caregiving responsibilities, limited mobility, bias in care, and underrepresentation in leadership.
And, as always at C/Can, solutions came from those who know the system best, those living it and leading it locally. Their roadmap will now shape all 11 of Nairobi’s C/Can ongoing projects.
- Gender-sensitive training
- Patient-centred service design
- Support for women in oncology leadership
- Inclusive, respectful care environments
- Outcomes over assumptions
Huge thanks to all our partners, Miriam Mutebi, Meritxell Mallafré Larrosa Mallafré, and our amazing Nairobi team, Beatrice Okumu and Maryann Ndungu for making it all happen.
To all the 70 stakeholders who participated, thank you for showing us what real transformation looks like. A report will soon be shared widely.”
More posts featuring Isabel Mestres.
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Challenging the Status Quo in Colorectal Cancer 2024
December 6-8, 2024
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ESMO 2024 Congress
September 13-17, 2024
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ASCO Annual Meeting
May 30 - June 4, 2024
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Yvonne Award 2024
May 31, 2024
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OncoThon 2024, Online
Feb. 15, 2024
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Global Summit on War & Cancer 2023, Online
Dec. 14-16, 2023