Off-Campus Mentors

Annaba Cancer Registry.

Oncology Centre – Annaba University Hospital.

Dr. Garcés-Palacio has research experience with underserved populations in the United States and Colombia, focusing primarily on cervical cancer prevention. Her projects have focused on the effect of the social determinants of health in cervical cancer screening and follow-up of abnormalities, and psychological factors related to HPV infection and vaccination. She has also investigated smoking prevention among women and maternal and child health in the Colombian armed conflict. Dr. Garcés-Palacio completed her undergraduate studies in Nutrition at Javeriana University in Colombia and graduate studies in Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham-UAB-(MPH in 2004 and DrPH in 2009). She was a post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Preventive Medicine at UAB during 2009 and 2010 and was honored with a Fulbright scholarship in 2002 and the Outstanding Doctoral Student award in 2009 from UAB’s School of Public Health.

Possible projects to develop during the program include but are not limited to secondary data analyses of vital statistics of Colombia, focusing on cancer and its relationship with health care insurance, ethnicity, and country of origin (migrants). For example, looking at how changes in health insurance policies influenced mortality of long vs short survival cancers.

Chairman, Gharbia Cancer Society, Egypt

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Colon Cancer, Breast Cancer

Head of Oncology Center at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Ghana

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Lymphoma

Consultant Oncologist at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Ghana

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Lymphoma

Executive Director, Middle East Cancer Consortium, Haifa
Cancer Research Specialty Area: Cancer Registry

Director, Department of Urology at Ramban Medical Center, Haifa

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Bladder Cancer, Prostate Cancers

Director, Jordan National Cancer Registry
Cancer Research Specialty Area: Cancer Registry, Lymphoma, Breast Cancer

Senior Clinical Research Scientist
Clinical and Technical Advisor
Nairobi Cancer Registry

Dr. Betania Allen-Leigh is a Researcher in Medical Sciences within the Reproductive Health Division at the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico. She did her Masters and PhD degrees in Anthropological Sciences at the Autonomous Metropolitan University-Iztapalapa campus, a public university located in Mexico City. She is currently working on two clinical trials on HPV vaccination in men living with HIVC and screening and triage options for cervical cancer detection in women living with HIV. She is also doing qualitative analysis on data about cisgender and transgender women’s and men who have sex with men’s perceptions of HPV vaccination and screening. She teaches qualitative methodology at the School of Public Health of Mexico and has also given virtual courses on qualitative research and analysis at the Universidad de Caldas in Colombia and the Universidad Mayor de San Simón in Bolivia.   

Dr. Portillo-Romero Alejandra, MD., ScD., participates as Co-Investigator and clinical coordinator of the Clinical Trials: “Ninovalent vaccine for the prevention of persistent oral infection in people living with HIV, Brazil, Mexico and Puerto Rico” and “Optimization of the screening of cervical cancer among women living with HIV in Latin American (LAC) countries”.

It participates in the US, Latin American and Caribbean HPV-Associated Cancer Prevention Clinical Trials Network (ULACNet), funded by the NIH and US National Cancer Institutes.

Within her professional experience, she has worked as a co-investigator in various trials related to HPV vaccination and detection, mainly in more vulnerable populations: men who have sex with men, transgender women, and sex workers. She has also participated as a teacher of the master of science in epidemiology of the National Institute of Public Health and as director and advisor of thesis of students enrolled in the postgraduate programs of the National Institute of Public Health.

Ibn Rochd Oncology Center at Hassan the Second University, Morocco

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Breast Cancer

Ibn Rochd Oncology Center at Hassan the Second University

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Cancer Pathology

Hassan VI Univ., Marrakesh

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Cancer Registry

University Hospital of Niamey, Niger

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Breast Cancer

Chairperson, Oman Cancer Association, Oman

Institutional Affiliation: National Center for Health Statistics and Informatics in Public Health, Bucharest, Romania

Director, Ocean Road Cancer Institute Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Professor of Oncology, Muhimbili Faculty of Medicine

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Cervical Cancer, Lymphoma

Saleh Aziz Cancer Institute and Cancer Control Association

Cancer Research Specialty Area: Breast Cancer, Cancer prevention

Uganda Cancer Registry

Cancer Research Specialty Area: HIV-Malignancies

Dr Tran Thanh Huong is the Vice Director of the National Institute for Cancer Control; Vice Director of the Bright Future Foundation, a supportive fund for cancer patients; and Vice Head of the Department of Ethics and Health Psychology at Hanoi Medical University.

Dr Huong has extensive expertise in developing, evaluating and capacity building for evidence-based identifying risk factors of cancer. She leads the curriculum development on social determinants of non-communicable diseases and health psychology for undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Hanoi Medical University. She currently is coordinator for a program on breast cancer prevention and the program “Improvement for Cancer Control in Vietnam: Selection of Appropriate Techniques for Breast and Cervical Cancer in Low-Middle Income Countries.” She also runs several programs to promote more accessible medicines for cancer patients. More recently, she is expanding her cancer-care interest to look at psychosocial intervention to support cancer patients. She plans to build on this work and integrate her expertise in evidence-based practices for cancer care.

Dr Huong earned her medical degree from Hanoi Medical University in 1996 and completed a PhD on psychosocial medicine at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, in 2006.

https://benhvienk.vn/pgsts-tran-thi-thanh-huong-pvd820.html

Cancer Disease Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia

Cancer Research Specialty Area: HIV-Malignancies