🎗️ ICCD 2026 || Global Leadership in Childhood Cancer – Dr. Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu | UICC

Описание: In recognition of ICCD 2026, PAPERI is honored to feature a special leadership conversation with Dr. Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu, President-Elect of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), Founder of the Medicaid Cancer Foundation, and Senior Adviser to the Honourable Minister of Health of Nigeria.

Dr. Shinkafi-Bagudu is the first African President-Elect of UICC and a global advocate for cancer equity, women’s health, and universal health coverage. In this conversation, she shares insights on:

🔹 Leadership priorities for advancing childhood cancer outcomes
🔹 Strengthening national cancer control plans
🔹 Integrating childhood cancer into Universal Health Coverage
🔹 The role of advocacy and civil society
🔹 Global collaboration and locally led solutions
🔹 Women’s leadership and health equity
🔹 Prevention, early detection, and sustainable policy reform

Moderated by Ms. Blessing (Nigeria), this session highlights how research, policy, advocacy, and health systems must work together to ensure that no child with cancer is left behind.

As we mark ICCD 2026, this conversation reminds us that improving childhood cancer outcomes requires:

✔ Policy commitment
✔ Strong health systems
✔ Global solidarity
✔ And sustained action

🎗️ Advancing science.
Strengthening systems.
Transforming futures.

🎗️ Thank you for joining this ICCD 2026 leadership conversation with Dr. Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu.

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