Changing global policy to deliver safe, equitable, and affordable care for women's cancers.
Breast and cervical cancer are major threats to the health of women globally, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. Radical progress to close the global cancer divide for women requires not only evidence-based policy making, but also broad multisectoral collaboration that capitalises on recent progress in the associated domains of women's health and innovative public health approaches to cancer care and control. Such multisectoral collaboration can serve to build health systems for cancer, and more broadly for primary care, surgery, and pathology. This Series paper explores the global health and public policy landscapes that intersect with women's health and global cancer control, with new approaches to bringing policy to action. Cancer is a major global social and political priority, and women's cancers are not only a tractable socioeconomic policy target in themselves, but also an important Trojan horse to drive improved cancer control and care.
Women's College Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: ophira.ginsburg@wchospital.ca.
Ophira
O
Ginsburg
Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India.
Rajan
R
Badwe
International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France; University of Strathclyde Institute of Global Public Health @iPRI, Glasgow, UK.
Peter
P
Boyle
Brunel University, London, UK.
Gemma
G
Derricks
Centre for Global Health Research & Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Anna
A
Dare
Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, World Bank Group, Washington, DC, USA.
Tim
T
Evans
Cancer Institute Ion Chiricuta, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Alexandru
A
Eniu
Pontificia Universidad, Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Jorge
J
Jimenez
Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
Tezer
T
Kutluk
Oncoclinicas Group, São Paulo, Brazil; University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
Gilberto
G
Lopes
Purdue Center for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Sulma I
SI
Mohammed
Department of Cancer Epidemiology, National Cancer Centre, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
You-Lin
YL
Qiao
James P Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Sabina Faiz
SF
Rashid
UNICEF, South Asia Regional Office, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Diane
D
Summers
Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.
Diana
D
Sarfati
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Aga Khan University, East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
Marleen
M
Temmerman
NCI Centre for Global Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Edward L
EL
Trimble
Initiative on Islam and Medicine and Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Aasim I
AI
Padela
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Institute of Cancer Policy, Kings Health Partners Comprehensive Cancer Centre, King's Centre for Global Health, King's Health Partners and King's College London, UK.
Ajay
A
Aggarwal
Institute of Cancer Policy, Kings Health Partners Comprehensive Cancer Centre, King's Centre for Global Health, King's Health Partners and King's College London, UK.
Richard
R
Sullivan
D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D011050:Policy Making; D011640:Public Policy; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D016387:Women's Health; D014933:Women's Rights