>> Thank you everyone for calling in to the webinar to hear more about the International
Cancer Control Partnership.
And specifically about the portal and all of the tools that we have available to the
Cancer Control Community.
We built this partnership and gathered the various stakeholder together to respond to
the activities at the World Health Organization level.
Specifically we believe that cancer control practioners can work together to fulfill the
goals set out by the World Health Organization.
They have a 25 percent reduction in non communicable disease deaths by 2025.
We think that some of the overarching framework and goals that are outlined in this global
action plan will actually help guide the activities of this partnership and of the practitioners
over the next 10 years.
We have the global monitoring framework, the global action plan that was ratified by the
World Health Assembly in May of 2013 and also the global coordinating mechanism which will
help organize activities at the global level.
Now what does that mean for individuals at the local level.
So if we think about local implementation we really need to make sure that individual
within a country have the framework and the support to set their own priorities.
And we need to make sure that these priorities are appropriate in the local context.
We need to make sure that the plans are adopted and that we're really look at an integrated
approach to ensure that governments in a holistic way and in a multisectoral way address the
cancer burden.
And finally a plan is no good if it's not implemented and if the outcomes are not assessed.
So we want to provide the technical assistance to this partnership to ensure that governments,
ministries and other stakeholders will be able to report on progress and outcomes.
And something I do like to remember is that a goal without a plan is just a wish.
And so if we don't have the implementation activities associated with the plan, we'll
actually never achieve the expected outcomes.
So what is the International Cancer Control Partnership?
Well it was formed in November of 2012 by multiple different organizations who had individually
engaged in cancer control planning efforts.
And the National Cancer Institute, along with the key partner, the union for International
Cancer Control felt that we could bring these interested stakeholders together and have
a partnership vision where every country had a National Cancer Control Plan that was of
high quality.
And that these plans would provide the framework for a systematic and equitable implementation.
So our long term goal, as I mentioned, is that all partners have a Quality Cancer Control
Plan and that we have to make sure that countries have the ability and the support to prioritize
cancer in order to reach that goal that I mentioned of reducing the non-communicable
disease burden by 25 percent by the year 2025.
So this slide outlines some of the various partners who have come together and indicated
that they feel that they have some role in addressing the global cancer burden.
They're represented by their logos here and also outlined in text on the side.
We're constantly seeking additional partners who may have a regional interest and you can
see there are some regional partners noted here, Aortic in Stockholm for example, RINC
is another regional partner.
And then there are partners who have an overarching goal, who may have interest in various regions
of the world.
And so we tried to bring them all together to understand everyone's role in this fight.
So what are our priorities?
We want to make sure that we have the ability to assist cancer planners and other public
health actors as they begin to think about addressing their cancer burden.
So what they think about implementing cancer control plans, cancer policies at the national
level how can this partnership help to develop and implement an evaluate these different
cancer plans and priorities.
The priorities of the partnership are to ensure that we have advocacy that can help practioners
in a country to make sure that cancer is deemed a priority as policies are developed.
We want to make sure that technical assistance that we provide is coordinated across the
partners.
We don't want people duplicating efforts or not being responsive to requests for technical
assistance.
We want to disseminate and potentially help develop evidence based materials to address
data gaps.
We want to help promote communities of practice in specific areas of need and we're calling
these the Networks.
And finally we want to provide this one stop shopping of best practice resources.
And we call this the ICCP portal.
And I'll talk more about that.
So what is the ICCP Portal?
We see it as a one stop shop for cancer planners and policy makers to find the materials and
tools that they need in order to focus on cancer control.
The link is here, ICCP-Portal.org.
And what we've done is pool together various tools and resources that we think will help
individuals within countries, ministries of health and it is all gathered together in
one place.
And we think it's really a knowledge sharing platform that has interactive maps and I'll
go through some screen shots of those maps.
A library of materials and tools that can be searched and sorted.
We have case studies and we're always looking for more examples from countries of how they've
actually addressed those developing a plan, implementing the plan or even evaluating the
plan.
We're providing technical assistance opportunities in the development implementation or evaluation
of a plan.
We have repositories of prevention campaigns so that others can learn from the experience
and finally events, global initiatives and more.
So the library of materials and tools we think is really one of the bright spots on this
portal.
We've gone through and gathered publicly available cancer plans.
We have methodologies, assessments and tool kits that are available and we hope will be
widely used by individuals thinking about various aspects of the cancer control spectrum.
And we also, through the interactive part of the website, have the ability for individuals
to suggest resources.
So it could be to provide a resource that you already have developed or it could be
to suggest a resource that needs to be developed.
And then we can, again, either develop the resource or try to find individuals who may
actually be able to do that for us.
The next slide I have in here I just wanted folks to see that there is a variety of ways
for plans to be represented.
It doesn't matter how glossy your plan is.
If it is a black and white version, it doesn't matter what language it is in, as long as
it is being utilized, it's being looked at for the ability to be implemented and evaluated.
The ability to be costed and ensuring that people refresh it and utilize it when thinking
through cancer control policy decisions.
As I mentioned, there's this interactive map and it's a searchable data base of the plans
both for cancer and also more inclusively for non communicable disease plans.
The 127 plans that are available, and this does include the different plans in the United
States are available to be downloaded and reviewed and, you know, evaluated on a per
country basis to determine if the activities outlined in any of these cancer plans would
be appropriate for your country context.
We've also been able to gather 30 NCD plans.
And we think that this is really an important component because as countries are looking
at valuable health care resources, valuable prevention resources, the common risk factors
across the NCDs need to be considered not just in the context of cancer, but also have
the impact cardio vascular, diabetes or chronic lung disease.
And so we think that these NCD plans provide a valuable framework for countries to look
at how have others integrated these various diseases into a single plan.
We have plans in English, French and Spanish and the fact that the data base is searchable
makes it easy to identify or pull out the either country aspect you're looking for or
specific cancer that you're looking for.
Now I mentioned case studies.
We're working with some of our partners to whom we have previously provided technical
assistance, specifically right now Morocco in Turkey.
And we want them to broadcast their example and their experience in working through the
process of developing cancer control plans.
We're certainly interested in posting additional experiences and [inaudible] book to you all
to provide those case studies or to contact us so that we can start the process of advertising
our experience.
Another part of the website is in advertising our ability to provide technical assistance.
So at the very bottom of the slide, I'll jump down there first.
We have some of the examples of technical assistance that some of the partners provide.
This is not an exhaustive list.
It's just exemplar.
As a representative of the National Cancer Institute I can say that we work very closely
with country teams to bring them together to start to think about what a cancer plan
in their country might look like.
What work force do they need to think about?
What are there data needs?
There are fellowships from the Unit for International Cancer Control and also from IARC and then
the impact mission that the IEA pact program provides are really an assessment of the existing
conditions within a country that helps to do some of the bullet points above so the
IEA pact missions as well as the leadership forums help countries to look at what are
some of the key gaps that may be need to be filled by this cancer plan.
We're looking at core elements for future activities within the partnership.
So what could some of the partners provide in terms of technical assistance?
And actually it's a response to what a demonstrated need by the community.
So within the partnership the objectives of the technical assistance are to make sure
that we meet the training needs across the spectrum of cancer control.
We want to make sure that policy makers at all levels feel that they have the support
of this partnership in making cancer control policy decisions.
And finally we really want to coordinate across the partners.
As I mentioned before we do not want to duplicate efforts but we want to ensure that there's
a streamlined process.
So how can you engage with the International Cancer Control Partnership?
There's really the opportunity to engage all members and all interested individuals through
the ICCP Portal.
So there's a -- individuals can visit the website and there's an email address at the
bottom.
We're constantly looking for resources, training materials and other tools that could be easily
integrated into the portal.
As I mentioned on a previous slide we're interested in case studies on your individual country's
experience in Cancer Control Planning, the implementation of that plan and specifically
the evaluation of that plan.
And we're looking for participants for the networks.
We do currently have a cancer prevention network and we believe that as the need or interest
arises we could have other networks that emerge within the context of the partnership.
So in addition to the contact information for technical assistance on the portal I've
listed the contact information for the NNI Center for Global Health.
Our website, our email, we do have a Twitter handle.
And again I thank you for your interest in the International Cancer Control Partnership
and for your listening through this Webinar.