Global Health Connector is pleased to announce a strategic collaboration with CancerX, the leading public-private partnership for accelerating digital innovation in oncology, uniting the people and solutions shaping the future of cancer care through collaboration, events, and impactful initiatives.
This collaboration reinforces Global Health Connector’s expanding thematic engagement in cancer and reflects a strong alignment of shared goals focused on reducing global cancer inequalities, strengthening health systems through digital innovation and ensuring meaningful solutions reach patients at scale.
CancerX shares this commitment by catalyzing cross-sector innovation and connecting healthcare, technology, policy and investment communities to support scalable, real-world solutions across the cancer care continuum.
Through this collaboration, both organizations will work to advance equitable access to quality cancer care, strengthen digital and data-enabled infrastructure, and accelerate the practical translation of innovation into sustainable impact across health systems globally. Together the organizations aim to The partnership also aims to reduce fragmentation, promote capacity building and foster meaningful cross-sector collaboration that delivers measurable to benefit to patients and communities.
Bleddyn Rees, Deputy Chair at Global Health Connector, said: “I first met some of the CancerX team at a Partner Program at HLTH Las Vegas last year and I was bowled over by the passion of patient advocates and cancer innovators. We are keen to involve our US communities (Ecosystems) in the work of CancerX and to involve them in our global activities. Together there is major scope for CollaborAction for the benefit of cancer patients, families, clinicians and researchers”.
Diana Gelston, Managing Partner and President at Decimal.health, the operating partner of CancerX, said:“Behind every innovation are patients and families waiting for better care. When we collaborate with partners like Global Health Connnector across institutions and borders, we shorten the distance between breakthrough ideas and everyday impact.”
About CancerX
CancerX is a groundbreaking public-private partnership designed to accelerate innovation in the fight against cancer. The initiative is hosted by Advocate Health and Moffitt Cancer Center and was launched in coordination with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) as part of the HHS InnovationX program.
To learn more, visit www.CancerX.health
About Global Health Connector
Global Health Connector helps to build a truly connected and collaborative global movement that’s driving health transformations – across themes, sectors, regions and cultures. We bring people together to accelerate health transformation through innovation, CollaborAction, and shared learning. We connect the dots, transform health, and
deliver global expertise with tangible results.
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