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Mission
The Breast Health Global Initiative (BHGI) strives to develop, implement and study evidence-based, economically feasible, and culturally appropriate "Guidelines for International Breast Health and Cancer Control" for low- and middle-income countries to improve breast health outcomes and access to breast cancer screening, detection and treatment for women.
2008 REPORT from the BREAST HEALTH GLOBAL INITIATIVE (available May 2008) |
Global Summit reception, from left, Leslie Sullivan, BHGI Senior Program Manager, Benjamin O. Anderson, BHGI Chair and Director, Joe Harford, Director, NCI Office of International Affairs, BHGI Executive Committee member, U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, the Honorable April Foley, Gabriel N. Hortobágyi, Immediate past president of ASCO, BHGI Executive Committee Chair. |
Achieving
Dr. Benjamin O. Anderson, BHGI Chair and Director: "The BHGI collaboration has become a vibrant alliance of organizations and individuals throughout the world. BHGI partners and collaborators who have made this endeavor possible share the passion to improve treatment for medically underserved women. Collectively we have developed a practical tool and framework for breast cancer that is recognized as a gold standard in clinical guidelines for low- and middle-income countries that can serve other groups to address cancer or other chronic disease through marshaling forces in a global alliance."
Dr. Gabriel N. Hortobágyi, BHGI Chair, Executive Committee, and Chairman, Professor of Medicine, Nellie B. Connally Chair in Breast Cancer, Chairman, Dept. of Breast Medical Oncology, Div. of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center: "You can't do the work of other people in other countries. I envision BHGI as a think tank that develops tentacles into other organizations and motivates a larger group of people and that group will reach into every corner of the world, and they in turn develop their own answers for breast health care. We hope through development of international clinical guidelines to give essential tools to developing countries to address this problem, and foster the passion for improvement. I hope we will generate waves in a pond and those waves will motivate other people to address this problem. Realistically that is what I think BHGI can accomplish."
