Isabel Mestres, CEO of City Cancer Challenge, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“I left WHA this year with a strange feeling. Did anyone else?
It was a successful week for C/Can. We shared the impact of our joint partnership with WHO to implement the Global Breast Cancer Initiative, announced Kochi, India, as the newest city to join our network, launched important new partnerships with MSD and Daiichi Sankyo Japan, and met with Ministries of Health, government representatives, partners and global health stakeholders working to move health forward in an increasingly difficult world.
And yet, one contradiction stayed with me.
The global health community increasingly recognizes the importance of people with lived experience. We invite them to events, ask them to share their stories, and say health systems must become people-centered.
But when it comes to redesigning the architecture of global health itself, civil society and people with lived experience still do not seem to have a formal seat at the table where governance, accountability and power are being shaped.
World Health Organization: People cannot be at the centre of every speech while remaining at the margins of decision-making.
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For me, this reinforces the need to keep City Cancer Challenge (C/Can) focused where it matters most: away from the noise and closer to the hard work of transforming health systems city by city, institution by institution, patient by patient.
Because real change does not happen in declarations. It happens when people finally receive the care they need.”
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