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During the Global Health Catalyst Summit, 7–9 July 2022 in Washington, D.C., the Global Oncology University (GO-U) presented its collaborative win-win education model.

Our book was published on 10 June 2022 by IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK. It is edited by Ahmed Elzawawy and Wilfred Ngwa, with 45 chapters by more than one hundred co-authors. The front matter, including the summary, the first chapter and the abstracts of all chapters, is free online for all.

We recognize with great appreciation the special contribution of the late Dr. Tabaré Vázquez, former President of the Republic of Uruguay. The keynote is by HRH Princess Dina Mired, past President of the UICC and Honorary Ambassador of the Win-Win movement. The foreword is by Sir Muir Gray.

Publication is only the first phase. It is a “living book”: please share it with your networks, scientific communities and librarian, and send us your feedback. Also available on Amazon.

“The Hunger, Health and Cancer Care. A call to all: Be their voice.” A statement by Prof. Ahmed Elzawawy, 12 November 2021.

ecancer published a video with Prof. Ahmed Elzawawy in its series of visionary World Cancer Leaders, arranged by Prof. Eduardo Cazap, past president of UICC, president of SLACOM and a leader in ASCO and ESMO.

The Global Health Catalyst Summit was held on 24–26 May 2019 at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Prof. Ahmed Elzawawy gave the keynote speech on 24 May on behalf of the director and all faculty of the GHC Win-Win movement.

See the Win-Win initiative page, the agenda and the speakers.

The Harvard Global Health Catalyst Win-Win session takes place on 28 April 2017, followed by two Win-Win working meetings on 29 April 2017.

The December 2016 newsletter of the Western Kenya Cancer Care Centre (WKCCC) project.

In December 2007 the Win-Win scientific initiative was proposed by Ahmed Elzawawy as an initiative of ICEDOC’s Experts in Cancer Without Borders. It aims to increase the affordability of better-value cancer treatment in the world by exploring scientific approaches.

Its second wing, proposed in November 2015, was declared on 29 April 2016 during the Harvard Catalyst Summit: catalyst action and professional advice to greatly increase the rate of establishment of clinical oncology services, starting with the hardest challenges in Africa. On the same day the initiative joined the Harvard Global Health Catalyst and became the Harvard Global Health Catalyst Win-Win Initiative.

We are professional consultants and volunteer catalysts, not a funding body.

Prof. Ahmed Elzawawy, President of AORTIC 2013–2015, talks to ecancertv at AORTIC 2015 (18–22 November 2015, Marrakesh, Morocco) about ways to improve cancer care in Africa and low- and middle-income countries. The best long-term benefits will come from training many more people, and Africa can still be a place for innovation in cancer care.

These ideas are in the open-access editorial Could African and Low- and Middle-Income Countries Contribute Scientifically to Global Cancer Care?, Journal of Global Oncology 1(2), December 2015.

At AORTIC 2015 in Marrakesh, Prof. Elzawawy talks to ecancertv about a roadmap for cancer control in Africa: a multidisciplinary approach integrating pathology, palliative care and immunotherapy, with the Lalla Salma Foundation in Morocco as an example of a local foundation with international connections.

Ahmed Elzawawy has joined the editorial board of JGO, the Journal of Global Oncology published by ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology).

Ahmed Elzawawy was keynote speaker at the Global Health Catalyst Cancer Summit at Harvard Medical School, Boston, on 20–21 March 2015.

Two ecancer videos were recorded on 23 November 2013 during the AORTIC conference in Durban, South Africa, the same day Prof. Elzawawy began his two-year term as President of AORTIC (African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer): Goals of the AORTIC 2013 meeting and Affordable radiotherapy and chemotherapy in Africa.

“My first role is to be hand in hand with all my colleagues in AORTIC and with all in the world who would like to cooperate for the cause of cancer control in the world and Africa.”

The chapter “Better Value Chemotherapy” appears in the book “How to Get Better Value Cancer Care” (2013), edited by Sir Professor Muir Gray and Prof. David Kerr and published by Offox Press, Oxford, UK. The book focuses mostly on industrialized countries, particularly the USA and Europe, with important notes for developing countries and the whole world.

Elzawawy A. Chapter 6: Better Value Chemotherapy. In: Muir Gray JA, Kerr DJ (eds). How to Get Better Value Cancer Care. Offox Press, Oxford, UK, 2013.

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT) featured the Win-Win initiative and Prof. Elzawawy’s chapter “Science and Affordability of Cancer Drugs and Radiotherapy in the World: Win-Win Scenarios”, free to read online.

Prof. Elzawawy took part in the first Advisory Group on increasing access to Radiotherapy Technology in low and middle income countries (AGaRT) at IAEA headquarters in Vienna.

Ahmed Elzawawy, President of ICEDOC, has been elected President-elect of AORTIC (African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer, incorporated in New York, USA and Cape Town, South Africa). “I promise to do all my best to serve the cause of AORTIC, hand in hand with my colleagues in AORTIC and in the world.”