DR. OPHIRA GINSBURG
Dr Ginsburg is a medical oncologist and global women’s health researcher with technical and policy expertise in noncommunicable diseases prevention and management. She is the Director of the High-Risk Cancer Genetics Program and Associate Professor in the Section for Global Health, Department of Population Health at New York University School of Medicine. Formerly based at the University of Toronto, from 2015 to 2016 she was as a Medical Officer at WHO, and continues to serve as a consultant to several UN agencies, providing technical assistance to member states on national cancer control planning and policies.
Over the last 15 years, Dr. Ginsburg developed an inter-disciplinary collaborative program of research, education, and policy guidance in cancer control, with colleagues on five continents. The overarching aim of her work is to improve equitable access to early detection for breast and cervical cancer in low-income and middle-income countries. She also conducts public health research to reduce cancer disparities for women in underserved communities in North America, and is leading a new study funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (“Cancer Moonshot” program), to improve access to cancer genetics services through primary care clinics in the New York area.
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