Global Health & Childhood Cancer
Exploring Ideas. Finding Answers.
Think of GHCC as an ongoing discussion about one of the most intractable problems in global health: how to provide complex medical care in resource-constrained settings. We will explore this problem through the lens of childhood cancer, but the insights we discuss can be applied to many complex or chronic diseases. So whether you are interested in cancer or any other areas of global health, here you will find useful insights in your own life and work.
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Recent Episodes
14. The Transformative Perspective: Pediatric oncology prioritization in health systems with Dr. Nickhill Bhakta
The Transformative Perspective In the last few months, evidence has emerged that pediatric cancer is more common, more deadly, and responsible for a much larger proportion of the global burden of disease than we previously believed. Moreover, recent publications show...
13. Nurses take charge: How to advocate for a safer working environment for staff and patients with Lorena Segovia and Linda Abramovitz
SIOP PODC Nursing Working Group: The Advocacy Toolkit Today on the podcast, we discuss a new advocacy toolkit that nurses can use to help improve the safety of their work environment and the quality of care they provide to patients. This discussion is a follow-up to...
12. The Missing 3 Million: Estimating pediatric cancer incidence and survival with Dr. Jennifer Yeh and Zachary Ward
Where are all of the pediatric cancer patients? There are times where new research completely changes the way one looks at a problem. The two articles we discuss on this episode changed the way I think about global oncology. Prior to reading the articles, if you...
11. Nurses are the final common pathway for safe care: The importance of baseline nursing standards with the SIOP PODC Nursing Working Group
SIOP PODC Nursing Working Group: Baseline Nursing Standards Nurses are one of the most important members of the healthcare team for children with cancer. In many ways, nurses are the final common pathway for providing care in both inpatient and outpatient settings. ...
10. Educating parents of children with cancer through successful international collaboration with Dr. Erin McCann and Dr. Soad Fuentes Alabi
Parents of childhood cancer patients are arguably the most important members of a child's treatment team. Yet many times in resource-limited settings, parents are not equipped with the knowledge to successfully care for the specialized heath needs fo their children. ...
9. Translating knowledge into action to reduce treatment abandonment with Dr. Paola Friedrich
Episode Summary On this episode we wrap up our 5-part series on treatment abandonment. In the last 4 episodes on the topic, (here, here, here, and here), we discussed the reasons why people abandon treatment and different ways to fix the problem. This episode is all...
8. Building trust and communication to reduce treatment abandonment with Dr. Saskia Mostert
Episode Summary Today we talk to Dr. Saskia Mostert, MD, PhD, a pediatric oncologist in the Netherlands who has tremendous experience working with healthcare providers to improve the care of patients in Indonesia and Kenya. Much of her works centers around the time...
7. “All the Colors of this Nightmare” – Part 2 – Parental Stress and Vital Exhaustion with Dr. Eyglo Gudmundsdottir
This is the second of a two-part episode. If you missed the first episode, you may want to listen to it first here. Today on the podcast, we talk to Dr. Eyglo Gudmundsdottir about the incredible stress that parents experience while caring for their child with...
6. “All the Colors of this Nightmare” – Part 1 – Parental Stress and Vital Exhaustion with Dr. Eyglo Gudmundsdottir
Today on the podcast, we talk to Dr. Eyglo Gudmundsdottir about the incredible stress that parents experience while caring for their child with cancer. She is unique authority on this subject, not only because she is a practicing clinical psychologist, has a PhD in...