Developing city health financing change makers

Many City Cancer Challenge (C/Can) cities lack the resources to ensure quality, equitable cancer care, and this leads to a lack of appropriate infrastructure as well as qualified human resources and treatment. This may also cause catastrophic financial shortages for patients and their families.
In order to improve city health financing, local ambassadors need to take action, advocate and catalyse change from within the system. However, local professionals, whether they belong to patient organisations, government institutions, think tanks or private institutions, often lack awareness of the tools required to become a change agent – and the possibilities this status provides.

To develop the capacity of local ambassadors to influence and generate change in cancer care financing.

C/Can has helped foster local and international knowledge exchange to catalyse transformation in health financing, bringing together change agents from diverse backgrounds (both institutional and geographic) to share ideas and experiences while co-creating solutions.
Learning from those experiences, the next step for C/Can in 2023 is to develop a change-maker programme for leaders in health financing, so as to create a network of ambassadors able to catalyse change at local level.