Nirmala Bhoo Pathy: An inspiring meeting of the Lancet Oncology Commission on Human Crisis of Cancer

Nirmala Bhoo Pathy, Public health physician at the University Malaya Medical Centre, posted on LinkedIn:

“What an inspiring and heartwarming meeting of the Lancet Oncology Commission on Human Crisis of Cancer, held in beautiful (and I must add, warm!) Toronto!

We’ve made incredible progress since our last gathering in King’s College London.

We all fired up to move our agenda forward to bring back, or rather amplify, the human touch in how we care for people and families affected by cancer.

The meeting was both productive and collegial. We are all geared up to continue our work, complete the commission report, and make a real difference together.

A special shout-out to Gary Rodin, Miah Z., Hanae Davis, for your warm hospitality and kindness, which made our time super memorable. And having the meeting at the beautiful Faculty Club at the University of Toronto was the cherry on top!

Richard Sullivan, Murallitharan Munisamy, Catherine Walshe, we really missed you, but you were all very much with us in spirit.”

Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy is a Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, and practices as a public health physician at the University Malaya Medical Centre, Malaysia. She is also a visiting scholar at Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom since 2014. Dr Bhoo Pathy’s career is focused on optimizing life after cancer in resource-limited settings through research and advocacy.

Dr. Bhoo Pathy was the principal investigator of phase III of the ASEAN CosTs In ONcology (ACTION) study, comprising close to 10,000 cancer patients from eight low-and middle-income member countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). She currently serves in two Lancet Commissions: the Lancet Commission on Women and Cancer and the Lancet Commission on Cancer and Health Systems. As the founder and scientific lead of a solution-oriented research group ‘Well with Cancer in Malaysia (WeCan@MY) https://spm.um.edu.my/wecan@my/ in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy currently oversees a wide range of studies on cancer care, cancer control and cancer policy, locally and globally.