Creating More Equitable Health Systems
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Felicia Marie Knaul, PhD, is a global health researcher whose work focuses on strengthening health systems, advancing gender equity, and improving access to care for those who need it most. She’s also lived through a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, and that experience informs her efforts to transform health systems around the world.
Listen to the episode to hear Dr. Knaul discuss:
her experience with breast cancer
why she founded Tómatelo a Pecho and what the organization does
why she thinks cancer control can drive the creation of better healthcare systems
At UCLA, Felicia Marie Knaul, PhD, is the director of global health at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, distinguished professor of medicine, senior advisor to the dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine, and senior advisor to the president of UCLA Health. In addition, she’s the co-chair of The Lancet Commission on Cancer and Health Systems and founded and led Tómatelo a Pecho, a non-governmental organization based in Mexico dedicated to breast cancer and women’s health advocacy and research. She chronicled her and other women’s cancer journeys in the books Tómatelo a Pecho and Beauty without the Breast.
This podcast episode is made possible, in part, by a grant from Lilly.
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