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Español‘Amana upon our shoulders – Call to adoption and integration of personalised cancer care in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region’
Venue: Novotel Genève Centre (Rue de Zurich 19, 1201, Geneva, Switzerland). This event will also be broadcasted on our YouTube here.
Time: 7pm - 8:30 pm CEST. Welcome drinks and nibbles from 6:30pm to 7:00pm and buffet dinner from 8:30pm to 9:30pm CEST
At the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean (EM) Regional Committee 2021, the Regional Director (RD) Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, in the middle of once in a lifetime pandemic, called upon all stakeholders to address the suffering of communities ravaged by public health crises, conflict and climate change. The RD said that care and alleviation of suffering was an Amana upon our shoulders “Fiduciary trust and humanitarian duty”.
To answer this call, the International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations, a Non-State Actor in official relations with the WHO, elected to address the care and suffering of cancer patients in the region through advocating for personalised cancer care. In 2022, IAPO set up the Personalised Cancer Care Alliance (PCCA), an alliance of cancer patients, carers and representatives of patient organizations from within the WHO Eastern Mediterranean and selected countries from WHO Africa and Europe to advance health literacy in cancer, advocacy skills and education on personalised cancer care.
In 2023, the Alliance launched a position paper on personalised cancer care (PCC) in the Eastern Mediterranean, the first of its kind in the region to put PCC in the spotlight of high level policy makers while providing a comprehensive road map for patients’ organizations and civil society to advocate and lobby for PCC. The paper sets the baseline for further discussion and development of personalised cancer care within our health systems and regions to ensure we have a predictive, preventative, participatory, personalised and pre-emptive (5 Ps) cancer care.
The Side Event will discuss and present a call to action to ensure we have 5 Ps integrated into universal health coverage by 2030 in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, especially in the area of non-communicable diseases and cancer care.
The 5 P’s can improve patient health outcomes, patient experience, match patient preferences, but also support our health systems to become effective, efficient, safe, acceptable, and accessible whilst delivering quality healthcare in a compassionate and humanistic way.
Event Speakers
Hon. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Health and Population, Egypt
Dr Ahmad AbdElAlim, Executive Director, Presidential Women Health & Cancer Programs, Ministry of Health and Population - Egypt
Dr Asmus Hammerich, Director, Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Dr Guy Fones, Head, Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs, World Health Organization
Dr Ibtihal Fadhil, Founder & Chair, Eastern Mediterranean NCD Alliance
Jenelle Krishnamoorthy, Vice President, Head of Global Public Policy and International Affairs, Merck
Kawaldip Sehmi, CEO, International Alliance of Patients' Organizations
Dr Sawsan A.S. Al Madhi, Advocacy Advisor, AlignnEficient Health Consultancies CO LLC
Dr Sonali Johnson, Head - Knowledge, Advocacy and Policy, Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)