Feb 5 2025

UIC Global Health Colloquium: Delivering Cancer Care in Tanzania

UIC Global Health Colloquium

February 5, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Location

Virtual Event

Global Cancer Care: Delivering Cancer Care in Tanzania

Dr. Nelson Chao is a Research Professor of Global Health at the Duke Global Health Institute. Dr. Chao is the founder of ICCARE (International Cancer Care and Research Excellence Foundation). His research interests have focused on clinical and immunological studies in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and in the development of innovative immunotherapies for blood cancers. He is also a leader in global oncology and has led studies on radiation injuries after nuclear accidents, as well as on HPV cervical cancer in Brazil, and Burkitt’s lymphoma in Tanzania.

Speaker:

  • Nelson Chao, MD, MBA, Donald D. and Elizabeth G. Cooke Professor, Duke University

The UIC Global Health Colloquium is a lecture series sponsored by the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Applied Health Sciences, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and Social Work and the School of Public Health.

This event is open to all UIC students, faculty and staff.

See past UIC Global Health Colloquium events.

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Contact

Jeanne Burian

Date posted

Jan 23, 2025

Date updated

Jan 23, 2025