From left to right: Dr. Ayomide Omotola (Program Manager, Sub-Saharan African Regional Program, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital), Dr. Freddie Bray (Head of Cancer Surveillance, IARC), Prof. Usman Malami Aliyu (Director General, NICRAT), Dr. Tunji Alausa (Hon. Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare), Dr. Max Parkin (Coordinator, AFCRN), Biying Liu (Administrator, AFCRN).
A training program for cancer registrars held in Abuja in late June capped the successful start of an ongoing collaboration between Nigeria’s National Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (NICRAT) and the African Cancer Registry Network (AFCRN). BVGH facilitated the introduction between NICRAT and AFCRN, as well as initial planning around the workshop and ongoing partnership. The three-day national workshop on population-based cancer registration was jointly organized by NICRAT, AFCRN, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and coincided with the Nigerian federal government’s declaration of cancer as a notifiable disease in Nigeria.