Kristina Jenei, Health policy researcher and registered nurse at Royal Marsden Foundation Trust, shared a post in LinkedIn:
“Excited to share our new article, out today in The Lancet Global Health, written Richard Sullivan, Cherian VARGHESE, Khalid El Bairi, MD, Jeannette Parkes, and Ajay Aggarwal
Cancer causes more deaths annually than HIV, TB, and malaria combined, yet receives less than 2% of development assistance for health. Drawing on 40 interviews with global health stakeholders, we demonstrate how the global response has been shaped by donor-driven fragmentation, a crowded field of actors with competing incentives (and ideas), and a narrative that privileges cancers amenable to vertical delivery while sidelining radiotherapy, surgery, and cancers with higher global burden. Addressing this will require a unified governance platform, financing aligned with health systems rather than discrete short-term projects, and framing that treats cancer as tractable across all income settings and disease areas.
Thanks to Gavin Cleaver for supporting a project that has been a long time in the making, and to this team for everything I learned in the process.
Title: Factors shaping the priority of cancer in global health: a qualitative policy analysis
Authors: Kristina Jenei, Khalid El Bairi, Prof Jeannette Parkes, Prof Richard Sullivan, Prof Cherian Varghese, Prof Ajay Aggarwal
Read the article here.
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