Global Health Catalyst Summit
Speakers
Outstanding speakers at all levels all interested in collaborations
2026 GHC Summit at Harvard/MIT
Catalyzing 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). GHC Summit organization around the C4 CORE Framework—Care, Outreach, Research, and Education—reflect strong commitment to democratizing access to global whole-person health through collaboration and implementation. Across three days, each session allows participants to journey from Inspire to Activate to Commission, transforming ideas into partnerships, demonstrations into implementation pathways, and conversations into measurable action. Days 1 and 2 focus on the CORE pillars, while Day 3 brings all four pillars together with, financing pathways, and country-led initiatives that extend beyond the Summit. This is not simply a conference—it is a catalyst for global health and development.
Some Past and Returning Speakers include
Full list of 2026 GHC summit speakers include
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64 days to the eventFri, Sep 18Location Harvard/MITSeptember 18-20, 2026 at Harvard/MIT
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