Global Health Catalyst Summit
Speakers
Outstanding speakers at all levels all interested in collaborations

GHC Summit at Harvard/MIT
Win-win Collaborations for global health and development
The Global Health Catalyst (GHC) Summit 2026 convenes a diverse global community— government leaders, clinicians, researchers, innovators, policymakers, youth, diaspora, industry, patient advocates, and spiritual leaders—for a three-day catalytic journey centered on the Comprehensive Cancer/CARE Center in the Cloud (C4). Participation is by invitation and abstract submission for the following signature GHC formats designed to catalyze collaborations around the C4 CORE (Care, Outreach/Advocacy, Research, Education) areas where anyone and everyone can participate:
SIGNATURE GHC FORMATS
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Catalyst Leaders (Invited): Visionaries who frame the moment, inspire or commission participants, and set the tone for collaborations. Nominations are welcomed
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Catalyst Lightning Rounds (Abstracts): 3–5 minute bold ideas with one key insight and one invitation to collaborate. Submit an abstract below
- Catalyst Dialogues including debates (Invited): Youth and global leaders engaging diverse perspectives to surface tension and move toward shared solutions.
- Catalyst Collaborations (Invited): Cross-border partnerships—including HIC, LMIC, and diaspora/industry leaders—modeling equitable collaboration in action.
- Catalyst Demonstrations (Invited): Showcases of latest productive collaborations, technologies by industry, C4 tools, AI platforms, prevention, diagnostics, treatment, palliative care, outreach research and education systems
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Catalyst Expressions (Invited): Storytelling, poetry, music, and art—centering patient–caregiver couples and whole-person health.
Nominate a speaker or submit an abstract for one of the GHC participation formats by April 30, 2026

GHC Summit Speaker/Participation Formats
Some Past and Returning Speakers include
Full list of 2026 GHC summit speakers will be available by June 15, 2026
Join us at the next GHC summit

160 days to the eventFri, Sep 18Location Harvard/MITSeptember 18-20, 2026 at Harvard/MIT
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Multidisciplinary/Bipartisan/Diverse Voices at the GHC summits all united against cancer
From Presidents, to Nobel Laureates, to Leaders in Congress, to global cancer leaders to students, to everyday people, overyone is needed to collaborate in advancing global health and development.
Below are a sample of these people:

Ambassadors, USA government expert, and Chairs of Lancet Oncology Commission for sub-Saharan Africa meet the press during the 2022 Global Health Catalyst summit at Johns Hopkins
Some previous distinguished Global Health Catalyst Award Winners
SInce 2015

Ed Benz
President of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute @ Harvard Medical School

Karen Bass
Chair of the USA Government House sub-committee for Global Health

Felica Knaul
Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative

H.E. Jeannette Kagame
First Lady of Rwanda

Funmi Olapade
Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago

Twalib Ngoma
Professor and Founding Director of the Ocean Road Cancer Institute

Harold Varmus
Nobel Laureate, Former Director of NIH and NCI

Kwanele Asante
Lawyer, Chairperson, Ministerial Advisory Committee on Cancer Prevention and Control, South Africa

David Kerr
Professor of Cancer Medicine, Oxford University

Ahmed Elzawawy
Professor and President of ICEDOC Experts, Chair of the win-win initiative

Eduardo Cazap
Founder and first President of the Latin American & Caribbean Society of Medical Oncology (SLACOM). Former President of UICC

Dikembe Mutombo
NBA Hall of Famer. Founder and President of the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation

Sulma Mohammed
Professor Purdue University

Rose Anorlu
President of African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer

Anthony Zietman
Editor-in-chief Red Jorunal, Professor Harvard Medical School

Dow Wilson
CEO Varian Medical Systems

Beatrice Addai
President of Breast Cancer International

H.E Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu
Philanthropist, and the First lady of Ondo State in Nigeria

H.E Dorothy Nyong'o
Kisumu County First Lady, Kenya

Nicholas Abinya
Professor, University of Nairobi, Kenya

Calvin Johnson
NFL Hall of Famer

Prof Rose Anorlu
President of AORTIC

Prof Otis Brawley
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins

Barbara Goodman
President of Cures Within Reach




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