INTRODUCTION
As part of the WHO Global Initiative on Childhood Cancer (GICC), and in follow up to our initial meeting in 2020, the Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH), in collaboration with Sick Kids-Caribbean Initiative (SCI) and St. Jude Global, is organizing a Caribbean-wide, multi-stakeholder virtual meeting on 1 October 2021 (09:00 to 12:00 WDC time), to continue discussing how to improve pediatric cancer care in this subregion.
OBJECTIVES
1. To follow up on commitments and plans discussed at the Caribbean childhood cancer meeting held in February 2020 in Trinidad and Tobago, involving Ministry of Health counterparts, pediatric oncologists and foundation representatives, as well as PAHO staff.
2. To establish sub-regional and national priorities and joint activities for the 2022-23 biennium in pediatric cancer care in the Caribbean countries.
PARTICIPANTS PROFILE
The participants are technical officials designated by the Ministries of Health of Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Bahamas, Guyana and Suriname, as well as officials at the units on Non-Communicable Diseases and Comprehensive care for Women, Children and Adolescents at the Ministries of Health of these countries, PAHO consultants involved in the pediatric cancer activities, as well as some experts in Pediatric Oncology, along with other national stakeholders working on pediatric cancer control, hospital directors and representatives of Foundations, NGOs and CARPHA. .
Participating in this meeting requires invitation
AGENDA
| Time | Title | Speaker |
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| 09:00 – 09:05 | Welcome remarks | Silvana Luciani, Unit Chief, Noncommunicable Diseases, Violence and Injury Prevention, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) |
| 09:05 -09:20 | Situational analysis of pediatric cancer in the Caribbean | Karina Ribeiro, Consultant Cancer Program Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) PAHO / WHO |
| 09:20 – 09:35 | Commitments of countries in the Caribbean - Workshop Feb 2020 | Soad Fuentes-Alabí, Consultant Cancer Program Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) PAHO / WHO |
| 09:35 – 09:50 | Advances in the Sick Kids -Caribbean Initiative (SCI) | Representative from Sick Kids -Caribbean Initiative (SCI) |
| 09:50 – 10:05 | Collaboration activities in the Caribbean countries – St Jude Global) | Monika Metzger, Regional Director for Central and South America, St Jude Global. |
| 10:05 – 10:20 | Implementation strategy of the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer (GICC) | Liliana Vasquez, Consultant Cancer Program Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) PAHO / WHO |
| 10:20 – 10:30 |
Exercise 1. Prioritization of a sub-regional GICC activity 1) Development / adoption of treatment guidelines 2) Estimation of costs of medicines and use of tools 3) Subregional communication campaign and 4) Support for the development of a network of foundations to help children with cancer in the Caribbean |
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| 10:30 – 10:35 | BREAK | |
| 10:35 – 11:35 | Exercise 2. Break-out rooms’ discussion | Facilitators |
| Room 1. Health services and registration |
• Karina Ribeiro, Consultant Cancer Program Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) PAHO / WHO • Sumit Gupta, Staff Oncologist, Division of Haematology/Oncology, Hospital for Sick Children. Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and IHPME, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada |
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| Room 2. Oncological medicines |
• Soad Fuentes, Consultant Cancer Program Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) PAHO / WHO • Avram Demburg, Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) |
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| Room 3. Human Resources |
• Liliana Vasquez, Consultant Cancer Program Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) PAHO / WHO • Monika Metzger, Regional Director for Central and South America, St Jude Global. |
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| Room 4. Financing and governance |
• Silvana Luciani, Unit Chief, Noncommunicable Diseases, Violence and Injury Prevention, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) • Sara Benitez, Consultant Cancer Program Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) PAHO / WHO |
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| 11:35 – 11:55 | Conclusions of each group | |
| 11:55 - 12:00 | Closure | Silvana Luciani, Unit Chief, Noncommunicable Diseases, Violence and Injury Prevention, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) |
TIME CORRESPONDENCE
- 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Belize
- 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Jamaica, Memphis, USA
- 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Bahamas, St. Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Guyana, Washington DC
- 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Suriname
