Overview
Thank you for joining us for Select Sessions from the 13th Annual Symposium on Global Cancer Research on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 9:00AM-11:30 AM U.S. ET.
Symposium proceedings can be accessed here.
The 2025 scientific abstracts are now published and available for viewing AACR’s Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention, here. We look forward to seeing you in 2026!
Steering Committee
Frédéric Biemar, Ph.D., Vice President, Education, American Association for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, PA, USA
María Teresa Bourlon, M.D., M.Sc., Representative, Academic Global Oncology Task Force, American Society of Clinical Oncology; Assistant Professor, Hematology and Oncology Department, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
Eduardo Cazap, M.D., Ph.D., FASCO, Founder and First President, Sociedad Latino Americana y del Caribe De Oncología Médica; Editor-in-Chief, ecancer; Co-chair, RINC-SLACOM, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Laura Esfeller, M.A., Patient Advisory Board member, KCCure; Patient Advocate, SWOG Cancer Research Group, San Bernardino, CA, USA
Edith Grynszpancholc, President, Fundación Natalí Dafne Flexer, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Benda Kithaka, Founder and Executive Director, KILELE Health, Nairobi, Kenya
Racquel Kelly Kohler, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., Chair, Global Cancer Research Special Interest Group, American Society of Preventive Oncology; Assistant Professor, Department of Health, Behavior, Society and Policy, Rutgers School of Public Health, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Keith Martin, M.D., PC, Executive Director, Consortium of Universities for Global Health, Washington, DC, USA
C S Pramesh, M.S., FRCS, Convener, National Cancer Grid of India; Director, Tata Memorial Hospital; Professor, Thoracic Surgery (Surgical Oncology), Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India
Belmira Rodrigues, Managing Director, African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer, Cape Town, South Africa
Rakiya Saidu, Ph.D., M.P.H., Chair, Research Committee, African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer; Senior Clinical Research Officer, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Viji Venkatesh, B.A., Region Head (India & South Asia), The Max Foundation; Managing Trustee - Friends of Max; Trustee, Being Human The Salman Khan Foundation, Mumbai, India
National Cancer Institute, US
Amina Chtourou, M.P.H., Health Scientist Administrator, Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Mishka Kohli Cira, M.P.H., Public Health Advisor, Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Kalina Duncan, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., Branch Director, Partnerships and Dissemination, Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Linsey Eldridge, M.P.H., Public Health Analyst, Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Nina Ghanem, M.Ed., Communications Director, Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Ophira Ginsburg, M.D., M.Sc., Former Senior Scientific Advisor for Clinical Research, Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Lillian Matthews, B.A., Communications Fellow, Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Mark Parascandola, Ph.D., M.P.H., Branch Director, Research and Training, Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Paul Pearlman, Ph.D., Program Director, Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Douglas Puricelli Perin, J.D., M.P.H., Contractor, Leidos Biomedical Research Institute with support to Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Yelena Shnayder, M.S., Public Health Analyst, Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Sudha Sivaram, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., Program Director, Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Agenda
September 16, 2025 (Times in US Eastern Time)
Symposium proceedings to be posted once ready.
| Time | Session | SPEAKERS |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00–9:15 AM | Opening Remarks | Satish Gopal, MD, MPH, Director, Center for Global Health, National Cancer Institute, USA |
| 9:15–10:45 AM | Oral Abstract Session | Moderators: Eduardo Cazap, M.D., Ph.D., FASCO, Founder and First President, Sociedad Latino Americana y del Caribe De Oncología Médica; Global Patron, ecancer; Co-chair, RINC-SLACOM, Argentina Margarita Correa-Méndez, Ph.D., M.S., M.P.H., Program Director, Center for Global Health, National Cancer Institute, USA Abstract Titles and Presenters: Clinicopathological Profile of Pancreatic Cancer Patients in a Lower Middle-Income Country: A Single Centre Study; Dinul Rabel, Department of Surgery, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka Oral HPV Prevalence and Genotypes Among Men Living with HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean: Preliminary Results of the ULACNet-201 Trial; Anna Beltrame, Center for Immunization and Infection Research in Cancer (CIIRC), H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, USA Breast cancer care pathways of women presenting at district-level and non-capital city hospital settings: findings from the ABC-DO Ghana; Clement T. Narh, Fred N. Binka School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana Hospitalizations for Malignant Pancreatic Neoplasms in Brazil: An Epidemiological Analysis from 2019 to 2023; João Paulo Farezin Fortti, Federal University of Health Sciences, Porto Alegre, Brazil Evolving Pediatric Cancer Outcomes in Tanzania: A Nine-Year Retrospective Study; Deborah Jasmine, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore Impact of Community Education Program for Retinoblastoma in Tanzania; Richard Mhone, Bugando Medical Centre, Tanzania Understanding Colorectal Cancer-Related Stigma in Nigeria: A Qualitative Analysis; Catherine Zivanov, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Global Cancer Disparities Initiatives, USA Psychometric Assessment of the Impact of Event Scale-Revised among Zambian Women with Cervical Cancer; Douglas DeMoulin, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA |
| 10:45–10:50 AM | Break | |
| 10:50–11:20 AM | Pearline Award Ceremony and Address | Moderator: Franklin W. Huang, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, United States Pearline Award Address: Asem Mansour, M.D., CEO and Director, King Hussein Cancer Center, Jordan |
| 11:20–11:30 AM | Closing Remarks | Laura Esfeller, M.A., Patient Advisory Board Member, Judy Nicholson Kidney Cancer Foundation; Patient Advocate, SWOG Cancer Research Group, USA |
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