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
23. Saving Lives by Supporting Families: The role of non-profits in cancer care with Bindu Nair of Aroh
What do you do if you don’t have enough money to pay for your child’s cancer treatment? This is one of the difficult questions faced by some families in India today. Answering this question is one of the reasons Aroh, a non-profit that supports families with children...
22. The Healthcare Labyrinth – exploring the journey to childhood cancer care with Dr. Neha Faruqui and Dr. Ramandeep Arora
How does a child with cancer in India access care? If you’ve ever had an illness that was difficult to diagnose, you know that navigating the medical system can be incredibly frustrating. Bouncing back and forth between doctors, taking time off of work or school,...
21. Coronavirus and the Immunocompromised – discussing COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Hotez
How should healthcare workers caring for immunocompromised patients think about the coronavirus epidemic? The novel coronavirus, now called COVID-19, is a worrisome disease, particularly for healthcare workers caring for immunocompromised patients. What do providers...
20. Collaborating in Africa to Cure Wilms Tumor with Dr. Trijn Israels and Dr. Festus Njuguna
In the United States, 500-600 children are diagnosed with Wilms tumor annually. The disease accounts for about 5% of all childhood cancers and is the most common kind of kidney cancer in children. In high-income countries like the United States, the 5-year survival...
19. The SIOP Global Mapping Project with Dr. Jennifer Geel
How many healthcare professionals in the world are caring for children with cancer? Tap the link for more info: https://siop-online.org/globalmapping/ This is a very important question. How many people are caring for kids with cancer around the world? Where are they...
18. It is Wildly Cost Effective to Treat Burkitt Lymphoma in Uganda – a conversation with Dr. Avram Denburg
How much does it cost to cure childhood cancer in Africa? The cost of cancer care in Africa, and other low- and middle-income countries, is an enormous question. Cancer is a very complex disease to treat. It takes time, medicines (and maybe surgery and maybe...
17. The Global Childhood Cancer Puzzle is Taking Shape – Edge #1
Have you ever completed a very difficult puzzle? (Below is just an intro! - Click here to go to the whole essay. You don't want to miss it!) Perhaps it was thousands of small pieces with colors that blend together, so that most of the pieces appeared very similar. Do...
16. Counting the lives that should have been: Measuring the global burden of childhood cancer with Drs. Lisa Force and Nickhill Bhakta
How do we measure the impact of a childhood cancer diagnosis? There are many ways to we could try to measure the total burden of childhood cancer in the world. We could count the number of new cases per year, for instance, a measure called incidence. Or we could...
15. Food is Medicine: Promoting nutrition in global oncology with Nyi Nyi Kyaw and Erin Gordon
Food is Medicine: Promoting nutrition in global oncology Studies show that children with cancer who are well nourished have better treatment outcomes than those who are malnourished. Unfortunately, many children in developing countries are malnourished even before...