Global Childhood Cancer

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Founded: 2020
Program Lead: Irini Albanti, DrPH, MPH, MA
Status: Completed Program, June 2025
Regions of Focus: All Global Regions
Research Theme: Risk, Resilience and Response

Description

The HHI Global Childhood Cancer Program aims to decrease inequities for children with cancer in low-resource and crisis settings. The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s (HHI) program on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Humanitarian Settings seeks to address the heavy burden of chronic disease in humanitarian settings and fragile states to improve humanitarian action and join international efforts to prevent, control and ultimately reduce the burden of NCDs, in particular in the world’s most vulnerable populations. 

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Projects

Strategic planning for new pediatric oncology services in low-resource settings
Storytelling for Impact in Global Health

  • Global Health Education
  • Day One Talk

Strategies for Policy Change and Advocacy
Financing

  • Cost-effectiveness of childhood cancer treatment
  • Financial planning study for the establishment of pediatric cancer centers in resource-limited settings

Team

Irini Albanti, DrPH, MPH, MA
Executive Director
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Dr. Irini Albanti is the Executive Director at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), a Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Lecturer of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical...
Irini Albanti

The Global Childhood Cancer Team includes the following members: