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Wil Ngwa

Wil
 
Ngwa

Director, Global Health Catalyst; Chair, Lancet Commission on cancer in sub-Saharan Africa, United States

Dr Wil Ngwa is Director of the Global Health Catalyst, a professor of Global Health and Radiation Oncology, and ICTU distinguished professor of Public Health. He is a chair of the Lancet Oncology Commission for sub-Saharan Africa and one of the leaders of the Cancer Moonshot Lancet Oncology Commission. He is a Rutgers Presidential Faculty Scholar and has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Heidelberg Germany and University of Pennsylvania. He co-directs the Africa-Oxford-Harvard-Hopkins (AfrOX-H2) Clinical Trials network. He is co-founder of the Global Oncology University, with an award-winning collaborative education platform that offers everyone access to the same world class education and training available at the world’s best institutions. 
 

Dr Ngwa has won over 35 prestigious awards/honors at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, from the United States National Institutes of Health, international professional societies and organizations, and foundations for his leading efforts in global health and innovation. He currently serves as an Advisor for the USA government on Global Health. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Buea, Cameroon; his masters and doctoral training at the University of Leipzig Germany, and clinical training at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School.