Ophira Ginsburg, Provost’s Visiting Professor of Global Cancer Equity at Imperial College London, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Huge kudos to IARC Director Elisabete Weiderpass and Clement Chauvet and all the organizers for a great meeting IARC60 !!
Hard to believe that IARC50 was 10 years ago! – my first time visiting and I was deeply honored to represent the small cancer team back then at the World Health Organization.
The toughest part about IARC 60 was choosing between parallel sessions – so much great science – epidemiology, prevention, early detection and implementation research, cutting edge technology including AI -but without hype. Refreshing to take part in rational discussions about safety, efficacy, equity and ethics on its potential benefits and harms in cancerresearch, prevention, and care.
Can’t thank you enough Shirin Heidari for coming to Lyon to join fellow The Lancet Group Commissioners– on stage (and off ) and mostly for your brilliant insights and talent moderating our external stakeholder panel in our
session “Women, Power, and Cancer: from commission to collective action” at the 60th anniversary conference of IARC – International Agency for Research on Cancer / World Health Organization IARC60!
It was equally a pleasure and honor to take part in the WHA79 side-events around sex and gender, including the 10th anniversary of the SAGER guidelines – which will surely drive action further towards gender equity, and better prevention and health for all! GENDRO.ORG MESSAGE (Medical Science Sex and Gender Equity) Imperial College London The George Institute for Global Health
I also enjoyed spending time with amazing Canadian cancer research, policy, and advocacy colleagues from the Canadian Cancer Society CEO Andrea Seale and Stuart E. EVP Research — and the brilliant and tireless Fei Fei Liu Director of the Institute of Cancer Research
And a global cancer research meeting would not be complete without a moment to reflect on progress on the elimination of cervical cancer with the inimitable Professor Karen Canfell, Partha Basu, Silvia de Sanjose and Elias Melly, National Cancer Institute of Kenya
This week was a critical reminder of the power of collective action, when informed by the best scientific evidence.”
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