Upcoming Seminar: Cancer and NCDs in the Developing World

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will host a seminar titled “Cancer and NCDs in the Developing World: The Looming Crisis in Global Health” on Wednesday, February 24 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm at the Metcalf Trustee Center at 1 Silber Way, 9th Floor.

Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Susan Foster will moderate a discussion featuring Maia Olsen, Program Manager for the NCD Synergies project at Partners in Health, and Dr. Franklin Huang, co-founder and co-director of Global Oncology (GO).

The seminar follows the December release of a Pardee Paper authored by Olsen, a 2013 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow, titled Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Need for New Paradigms in Global Health.