Grant: Dissemination Events

Of the 7.6 million people who died world wide from cancer in 2008, 70% were from low-or middle-income countries (LMICs).The absolute cancer burden in LMICs is set to rise substantially as lifestyle changes and the effects of smoking increase. Its relative burden will also rise as deaths from childhood and infectious diseases decline. In contrast, cancer death rates have declined in high-income countries due in large part to reductions in smoking and to wider access to screening and treatment interventions. Thus, there is increasing need for governments in LMICs to adopt evidence-based national cancer control programs. The Disease Control Priorities third edition (DCP3) is major global assessment of disease and health system strategies, pairing estimates of deaths and disability with economic evaluation and analyses of health systems to help national healthcare policy-making. DCP3 will have a dedicated volume of global analyses of cancer control, to support public health action, design of rational cancer control programs, and to guide cancer research. Its key audience will be ministries of health and finance in LMICs. This proposal is for the first of three focused regional dissemination workshops to engage important decision makers in LMICs with researchers working on DCP3. It will be held in Mumbai India on June 7-8 2013, at Tata Memorial Centre (TMC). It will be be co-funded by TMC and the Center for Global Health of the U.S. National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health (NCI/NIH). DCP3 researchers will present their results to regional and local cancer researchers, practitioners and trainees, inviting inviting region-specific input for global as well as national cancer control and research strategies. We expect this workshop will help to improve co-ordination between the efforts of the global cancer community and to advance evidence-based national cancer research and care provision in LMICs.