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Closing Knowledge Disparities

Closing Knowledge Disparities. Funmi Olopade, MD, FACP Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor Center for Global Health. Today’s Major Challenge Global Health Disparities. UNDP 2009. Age-adjusted breast cancer mortality 2007. ACS Accredited site.

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Closing Knowledge Disparities

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  1. Closing Knowledge Disparities

    Funmi Olopade, MD, FACP Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor Center for Global Health
  2. Today’s Major ChallengeGlobal Health Disparities UNDP 2009
  3. Age-adjusted breast cancer mortality 2007 ACS Accredited site
  4. Black and White Breast Cancer Mortality Chicago, 1981-2007 62% Prepared by The Sinai Urban Health Institute Age-Adjusted Female Breast Cancer Mortality for Chicago, Per 100,000 Population
  5. Aggressive Triple Negative Breast Cancer 68 yr old white woman 03/06/03 03/08/05 Died 10/06
  6. Mobile Mammography for Africa---Where is the Evidence? Two Unusable Mobile Vans in Kampala, Uganda
  7. $700mm Center for Care and Discovery “Devoted to complex specialty care, with a focus on cancer and advanced surgical programs” “Major advances will be driven by discoveries in genomics and personalized medicine”
  8. The failure of cancer medicine? “Their ten-point message can be paraphrased as doing what we know how to do better in terms of prevention, treatment, and care; and learning what we do not yet know more efficiently through new models of research focused on patient benefit. Central mechanisms for achieving these changes include having a clear cancer strategy for each country, universal health coverage to deliver higher quality cancer care, and to wage war on tobacco” Lancet Editorial www.thelancet.comVol 381 February 9, 2013
  9. Global Health at UChicagoOur Mission Democratize education Collaborate with local and global communities to improve health Advance novel trans-disciplinary and sustainable solutions to improve health Reduce global health disparities
  10. Why Should We Care?US Air-Travel Related Illnesses in 2009 Tuberculosis- 662 reports Chicken pox and shingles 518 reports Measles 78 reports Mumps 56 reports Whooping cough 41 reports Typhoid fever 19 reports Lassa fever 1 report 15-70% of returning travelers to the USA have a travel-related illness* CDC 2009, CDC 2011*
  11. To evaluate how genetic, biology, and environmental factors interact to impact breast cancer risk in women of African descent Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research: CIHDR Projects 2 and 3 (Olopade, Gehlert) Projects 1 and 4 (Conzen, McClintock) community/ neighbor- hood (crime, collective efficacy, social ecology) housing environ- mental exposure social circum- stances (social isolation social support) psychological state hormones behavior patterns genes
  12. New Global Health Track within GPHAP GPHAP-CGH Collaborative Effort Pritzker School of Medicine students First Cohort started Fall 2012: 11 students across multiple schools 6 Booth students; 3 SSA students; 2 Harris students Medical students will join next year 2 Required Courses offered by SSA and Pritzker
  13. Next Steps Global Cancer Research Vaccines Tobacco Genomics Global Environment Indoor pollution Arsenic Health Systems Reform
  14. Opportunities in Global Cancer Research Skip Inefficiencies of the past Leverage emerging technology in IT Laura Esserman and Funmi Olopade
  15. Sunrise at Serengeti
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