Cross City Projects
Improving and standardising data sharing infrastructure
Ease city access to digital health information exchange solutions for cancer care.
We work with cities to develop tools and guidance, including digital, to enhance the availability, quality and sharing of data and insights, and to strengthen cancer surveillance.
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Advances in information systems
Discover the digital ecosystems we support in our cities, allowing global and local experts to share best practices and turn research into innovative cancer care approaches.
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Cross City Projects
Strengthening C/Can data for decision making
Creating evidence-based policies to improve access to cancer care in C/Can cities
Kumasi, Ghana
Improving laboratory information ecosystem
Improve standardisation and information flows between laboratories
Kumasi, Ghana
Digital platform for multidisciplinary team case presentation
Kumasi implements digital transformation
Kumasi, Ghana
Multisectoral coordination of paediatric cancer patient management
Kumasi improves and standardises children’s cancer care
Tbilisi, Georgia
Multisectoral coordination to standardise nuclear medicine
Tbilisi harmonises the quality of diagnostic imaging for cancer care and assesses readiness to expand nuclear medicine.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Standardising cancer registry data collection
Improving cancer management through use of cancer registry data
Tbilisi, Georgia
Strengthening best practices in radiotherapy
Tbilisi improves the quality and safety of the provision of radiation therapy.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Standardising and strengthening pathology diagnostics
Tbilisi improves quality and standardisation of pathology diagnosis
Porto Alegre, Brazil
A systemic approach to registering cancer data
Porto Alegre improves cancer surveillance and data-driven decision-making.
Kumasi, Ghana
Overall improvement of pathology diagnosis
Capacity and quality improvement of pathology diagnosis in Kumasi
Kigali, Rwanda
Quality care coordination system
Kigali improves decision-making and speeds up patient treatment.
I saw firsthand how the inter-institutional navigation system developed in Kigali has improved cancer care for patients. The digital platform makes it much easier for navigators to coordinate patient care. MSD is proud to support City Cancer Challenge’s digital health initiative
Ava Skolnik
Associate Director, Health Equity Programs and Partnership at MSD
The success of everything depends on human beings. You can have the best of systems, developed by the best developers, but it all ends with the end user.
Francis Sunkwah
Director of Penless Data Solutions
The adoption of structured reporting standards in Kumasi will improve the quality of cancer diagnosis, reduce turnaround times and eventually lead to optimised and timely treatment decisions for better outcomes, as well as raising the bar in terms of the quantity and quality of data in the Cancer Registry.
Dr Ernest Kwasi Adjei
Head of Laboratory Services Directorate at KATH
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Population benefited from improved health systemsProviding technical expertise to support the planning, design and implementation of quality assured and standardised cancer care solutions.
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Health service delivery -
Strengthening the skills to deliver quality care.Strengthening the skills, instincts, abilities, processes and resources that cities need to deliver quality cancer diagnosis, treatment and care.
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Developing data-driven investment strategies.Supporting the development of smart, data-driven investment strategies and providing tools to support local decision makers in allocating resources and leveraging opportunities for external funding.
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Health financing -
Activating stakeholders to achieve policy changes.Connecting and activating stakeholders to build an enabling environment for sustainable cancer care solutions including policy and regulatory changes.
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Capturing evidence on how to improve cancer care.Our research initiative aims to capture evidence on how to improve cancer care in Low-and Middle Income Countries (LMICs).
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Research