Nazik Hammad: First systematic review on cancer workforce
Nazik Hammad posted on LinkedIn:
“1st systematic review on cancer workforce.
1st lesson: quantity is not enough: needed are adequate employment, quality, robust retention policies, protecting public sector. Glaring gaps: adequate LMIC data on homegrown solutions. D. Trepani – our lead author. Lots to be do.
Article: Trapani D, Murthy SS, Hammad N, Casolino R, Moreira DC, Roitberg F, Blay JY, Curigliano G, Ilbawi AM. Policy strategies for capacity building and scale up of the workforce for comprehensive cancer care: a systematic review. ESMO Open. 2024 Mar
Source: Nazik Hammad/LinkedIn
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.
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