The wife of the Ondo state governor, Mrs. Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu was among the speakers at the ongoing Harvard Global Health Catalyst Summit in Boston.

She addressed the gathering during Government Leaders Session, when how government leaders can support global health/development was discussed.

The premier yearly global health  summits at Harvard and around the world is designed to catalyze high impact international collaborations and initiatives to eliminate global health disparities.

The Global Health Catalyst (GHC) summit is a premier yearly  event at Harvard  with satellite conferences in Europe and Africa  dedicated to catalyzing high impact international collaborations and initiatives to eliminate global health disparities, with main focus on cancer and other non-communicable diseases.

Since 2015, the yearly summits are part of a series of high impact initiatives of the Harvard Global Health Catalyst funded by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and seed-funding from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University and recently a growing number of partner Institutions, including, industry, funding agencies and diaspora organizations dedicated to global health and development.

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