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with an award-winning collaborative education model for global health

Global Oncology University (GO-U) provides access from any country to the same world class education and training available at the worlds best Universities and Medical Schools. GO-U empowers crucial global workforce, building on an award-winning collaborative education model with online lectures accessible from any country, and practical/clinical training in local/regional credentialed sites across the globe. GO-U is the premier University that offers both online continuous medical education in oncology disciplines and graduate degree (Masters, PhDs) and clinical MMed residency training in oncology with vision to eliminate global cancer health disparities. Co-mentorship and bi-directional learning involving oncology health professionals from both high income country (HIC) and Low/Middle income country (LMIC) institutions is also a major aspect of GO-U training with outcomes that include co-authored publications and funding to grow win-win collaborations benefiting both HIC and LMIC institutions. The faculty at GO-U are amongst the very best in the world, including top diaspora faculty helping turn brain drain to brain circulation and global health gain. At GO-U we believe global health is local health and everyone is welcome.

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LATEST NEWS

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2023 GLOBAL ONCOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE COURSE SET TO START ON MAY 5, 2023

January 22, 2023

The First Lecture of the 2023 GO Implementation Science Course will be on May 5, 2023, during the Global Health Catalyst summit at the University of Pennsylvania Irvine Auditorium

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2023 GLOBAL HEALTH CATALYST SUMMIT TO TAKE PLACE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ON MAY 4-6, 2023

August 9, 2022

The 2023 Global Health Catalyst summit supported by the USA National Institutes of Health will take place at UPenn. The yearly summits are designed to educate and catalyze high impact global oncology collaborations between USA and African countries, working with partners across the world

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VISITING FACULTY AND CO-MENTORED RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

January 7, 2022

Applications are invited for up to 10 Global Health Catalyst (GHC) visiting Faculty Fellowships and Research fellowships beginning July 1, 2022.
Application deadline: February 28, 2022 (Awardees will be notified in March 2022)

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PREMIER LAUNCH OF THE LANCET ONCOLOGY COMMISSION FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

May 10, 2022

The First Lady of Ghana launches the Lancet Oncology commission for sub-Saharan Africa in Accra, Ghana

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STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIOTHERAPY (SBRT) AND RADIOSURGERY (SRS) COURSE STARTS AUGUST 16TH 2019

August 4, 2019

This Course taught by Faculty from Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, University of Heidelberg and Harvard GHC win-win initiative partners is organized as part of a collaboration with Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center

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GO-U WORKSHOP IN TANZANIA WITH SUPPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

April 1, 2019

Funded by the University of Pennsylvania Global Education Fund (PI. Stephen Avery), the Global Health Catalyst Summit and workshop in Tanzania was a resounding success with one outcome being increased support for GO-University. The summit/workshop also provided training to medical physicists, radiation oncologists and radiation therapists.

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COLLABORATION INITIATIVES

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GLOBAL HEALTH CATALYSTS SUMMIT

The Global Health Catalyst (GHC) summit is a premier yearly event dedicated to catalyzing high impact international collaborations and initiatives to eliminate global health disparities. The main focus of the summits are on the rising scourge of non-communicable diseases like cancer, mental health, pain and cardiovascular diseases which are severely impacting global health and economic development.

Since 2015, the yearly summits have led to many win-win collaborations including the launch of two major collaboration initiatives: the comprehensive cancer center in the cloud (C4) powered by artificial intelligence and the Global Phytomedicines collaboration initiatives.

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WORLD PREMIER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER IN THE CLOUD (C4)

The C4 is an award-winning Expert-remote (tele-oncology) solutions platform, representing the world's premier Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Cloud (C4) powered by artificial intelligence. The C4 provides a platform to allow access from any where in the world to the same quality of cancer care research and education available at the world's leading comprehensive cancer centers. In cancer care the C4 integrates a tele-medicine platform allowing for tasked-shifted teleoncology with partners in low and middle income countries (LMICs). In research, the C4 supports collaborative research in the cloud including multi-center clinical trials. C4 education is implemented via the award winning collaborative education model via the global oncology University.

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INTERNATIONAL PHYTOMEDICINES INSTITUTE

From Farm to Bedside

The Global Phytomedicines Institute (GPI) is a world leading collaboration initiative dedicated to dramatically increasing access to evidence-based medicinal plants for global health and economic development.

Vision: Unprecedented Health and Wealth from Medicinal Plants

Mission: Providing the best Research, Education, Consultation/care, and Outreach with different stakeholders and over a billion people who use Medicinal Plants across the world.

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RELIGION AND GLOBAL HEALTH FORUM

The GHC is a major catalyst for the establishment of the Religion and Global Health Forum, with Major Hub at Drew University. The Forum partners with scientists, researchers, religious leaders, writers, poets, educators, counselors, etc. in the fields of medical, social, political, and environmental sciences, to host panel discussions, presentations, and partnership building platforms that will improve individual and public health outcomes across the world. The Forum brings the expertise of different health-related disciplines to share knowledge, strategies, challenges, and processes associated with examining religion as a health asset and a catalyst for health. Learn more here

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“Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world.”

Nelson Mandela

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EDUCATION OFFERINGS

Go-U is the premier global oncology education platform offering Certificate and degree/residency programs and links to courses offered by other organizations so as to maximize access to education and training, and reduce disparities

SHORT TERM CERTIFICATE OR CONTINUOUS EDUCATION COURSES

Short term courses

GO-U collaborates with Faculty at World Leading Institutions (e.g. Harvard, Johns Hopkins, UPenn, Oxford) to offer high impact continuous education courses with certificates or CME. These courses are based on needs assessment to maximize impact. Short term Education is also part of the yearly global health catalyst summits

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DEGREE AND RESIDENCY PROGRAMS

Degree programs

GO-U offers Masters and Doctoral degree programs for training oncology health professionals in collaboration with partner institutions, via an award winning collaborative education approach. The approach involves online didactic education from the best professors on the curriculum, complemented by practical training or research at local credential sites.

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