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Cancer Control in Conflict Areas Special Interest Group

Goal

Populations impacted by emergencies in Africa have access to inclusive, equitable, people-centered, context specific, quality cancer control services, offering hope and a chance for living well with cancer and buffered from the combined burden of violence, climate change, natural hazards and disease.

Aims

Political sensitisation and strengthening local, national, and regional capacities for the provision of cancer control services in an equitable, inclusive, people-centered and context specific manner for populations impacted by emergencies, through knowledge generation and dissemination, workforce capacity development, partnerships and localization.

Key Objectives

Integration: Promote the integration of cancer control across the processes of emergency mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery and the Humanitarian – Development – Peace Nexus (HDPN) in Africa.

Capacity Strengthening: Enhance local, national, and regional capacity strengthening for cancer control in emergency and fragile settings.

Knowledge Hub: Foster knowledge generation, dissemination and subject matter expertise.

Partnerships and Localization: Establish and facilitate partnerships with the relevant local, national, regional, and international bodies to achieve the stated objectives.

Projects & Activities

#Ongoing
#Survey
Dear Colleague,
We are surveying the perspectives of oncology care professionals on cancer care across the continuum for displaced populations in Africa. The 10 minutes survey is intended for oncology professionals who provide cancer care to displaced populations in Africa and seeks to understand the landscape of cancer care for displaced persons in Africa through the experiences of the oncology care professionals. The information generated will help inform policy, action, and collaboration to improve cancer care for patients internally displaced within their own countries and refugees and asylum seekers hosted in neighbouring countries. If you have provided cancer care for displaced populations in Africa, please take the survey and we encourage you to share it with your colleagues.
https://queensu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2fQk14HQpsTNBGu
Project partners

We are actively seeking partners for this project.

Get Involved

Please contact the co-chairs of this SIG

Nazik Hammad M.D., FRCPC, M.Sc., MEHP, FACP, Professor, Division of Hematology-Oncology St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto

nazhammad2619@gmail.com

Cancer Control in Conflict Areas Special Interest Group

Aims

Key Objectives

Projects & Activities

Perspectives of Oncology Care Professionals on Cancer Care across the Continuum for Displaced Populations in Africa

Get Involved

Cancer Control in Conflict Areas Special Interest Group