Starting on:
Jan 10, 2022
Ending on:
Jan 10, 2022
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Venue:
Medixus
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3 Points
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MEDIXUS LTD
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Jan 10, 2022
Ending on:
Jan 10, 2022
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Medixus
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3 Points
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Cancer Registry
Starting on:
Jan 10, 2022 10:00 AM
Jan 10, 2022 10:00 AM
Ending on:
Jan 10, 2022 3:00 PM
Jan 10, 2022 3:00 PM
Venue:
Medixus
Medixus
Description
A look at cancer registries in Kenya and their importance.
Objectives
1. To understand the history of cancer registry in Kenya
2. To explore the current limitations
3. To encourage expansion of cancer registries
Presenters
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Dr.
Valerian Mwenda
Dr Valerian Mwenda is a medical epidemiologist; with a special focus on the synergies and relationships between communicable and non-communicable diseases, especially cancer. He endeavours to build effective partnerships in cancer control through collaborations spanning the academic, research, technical, political, governance, management and leadership domains, as well as ensuring citizen empowerment and participation in the research/planning/public health programming cycle. Currently, he is the lead, monitoring, evaluation and research at the National Cancer Control Program, Ministry of Health, Kenya. He has skills spanning several domains of public health including surveillance, epidemiological mapping, leadership in Global Health and research evidence synthesis. He is a fellow at Chatham House, under the African Public Health Fellowship. In addition, he is a member of the East African Cancer Registration Network as well as Cancer Screening in Five Continents (CanScreen5), a project of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) that aims to collect information on the characteristics and performance of cancer screening programmes across the globe.
Ministry of Health