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Building cancer care resilience through international observerships: Lessons from Ukraine

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The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has devastated the Ukrainian healthcare infrastructure, disrupting cancer care, halting clinical trials, and compounding long-standing systemic challenges.  Even before the war, Ukraine’s oncology system faced major constraints: Limited access to radiotherapy equipment, outdated chemotherapy supply chains, and workforce shortages. The invasion intensified these issues—cancer hospitals were damaged, warehouses destroyed,...

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Nataliya Kovalchuk, PhD
Clinical professor, Radiation Oncology Department, Stanford University; Founder and president, Help Ukraine Group
Andriy Beznosenko, MD, PhD, MBA
Chief, Division of thoraco-abdominal oncology, National Cancer Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine; CEO, OncoHUB
Vitaliy Y. Poylin, MD, MBA
Associate professor of colon and rectal surgery, Northwestern University
Rostyslav Semikov, MD, MS
CEO, Audubon Bioscience; Co-founder and CEO, Peace and Development Foundation
Arman Kacharian
Head, Innovations Unit, Ministry of Health of Ukraine
Douglas Davis, MD, PhD
Assistant professor, Department of radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin; Member, Board of advisors, Global Medical Knowledge Alliance
Nataliya Uboha, MD, PhD
Associate professor, Division of hematology, medical oncology, and palliative care, University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center; Member, Board of advisors, Global Medical Knowledge Alliance
Natalka Suchowerska, PhD
Associate professor, Department of radiation oncology, University of Sydney, Australia; Vice president, Director of Australia outreach, Help Ukraine Group
Viktor Iakovenko, PhD, MCPPM
Assistant professor, Division of Medical Physics and Engineering, Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center; Co-founder, Director of Canada outreach, Help Ukraine Group
Jacqueline Hart, MD
Consultant, Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital; Member, Heal Ukraine Group; Director, The Bassuk Center on Homeless and Vulnerable Children & Youth
Mark Poznansky, MD, PhD
Director, Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, Attending physician, Infectious Diseases Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; Member, Heal Ukraine Group
Darya Kizub, MD
Assistant professor, Department of Breast Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Director of Oncology, Global Medical Knowledge Alliance
Nelya Melnitchouk, MD, MSc
Assistant professor of surgery, Harvard Medical School, Associate surgeon, Department of Gastrointestinal and General Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Founder and CEO, President, board of directors, Global Medical Knowledge Alliance
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Byline
Nataliya Kovalchuk, PhD
Clinical professor, Radiation Oncology Department, Stanford University; Founder and president, Help Ukraine Group
Andriy Beznosenko, MD, PhD, MBA
Chief, Division of thoraco-abdominal oncology, National Cancer Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine; CEO, OncoHUB
Vitaliy Y. Poylin, MD, MBA
Associate professor of colon and rectal surgery, Northwestern University
Rostyslav Semikov, MD, MS
CEO, Audubon Bioscience; Co-founder and CEO, Peace and Development Foundation
Arman Kacharian
Head, Innovations Unit, Ministry of Health of Ukraine
Douglas Davis, MD, PhD
Assistant professor, Department of radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin; Member, Board of advisors, Global Medical Knowledge Alliance
Nataliya Uboha, MD, PhD
Associate professor, Division of hematology, medical oncology, and palliative care, University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center; Member, Board of advisors, Global Medical Knowledge Alliance
Natalka Suchowerska, PhD
Associate professor, Department of radiation oncology, University of Sydney, Australia; Vice president, Director of Australia outreach, Help Ukraine Group
Viktor Iakovenko, PhD, MCPPM
Assistant professor, Division of Medical Physics and Engineering, Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center; Co-founder, Director of Canada outreach, Help Ukraine Group
Jacqueline Hart, MD
Consultant, Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital; Member, Heal Ukraine Group; Director, The Bassuk Center on Homeless and Vulnerable Children & Youth
Mark Poznansky, MD, PhD
Director, Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, Attending physician, Infectious Diseases Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; Member, Heal Ukraine Group
Darya Kizub, MD
Assistant professor, Department of Breast Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Director of Oncology, Global Medical Knowledge Alliance
Nelya Melnitchouk, MD, MSc
Assistant professor of surgery, Harvard Medical School, Associate surgeon, Department of Gastrointestinal and General Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Founder and CEO, President, board of directors, Global Medical Knowledge Alliance
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