UICC Global Breast Cancer Initiative foundational course

An online course providing foundational knowledge on the strategies that national programme managers, policy makers and multisectoral actors should follow in assessing, strengthening and scaling-up services for the early detection and management of breast cancer, following the World Health Organization’s Global Breast Cancer Initiative (GBCI) established in 2021.

This course is supported by UICC's Breast Cancer programme's partners.

What you'll learn

•  Define why breast cancer is a growing global public health priority
•  Describe the inequities behind the global data on breast cancer's incidence and mortality, and their key driving factors 
•  Understand the strategies that countries with high breast cancer survival rates have adopted to reach those results
•  Understand the Global Breast Cancer Initiative's approach in bridging the inequities in breast cancer outcomes
•  Describe the three pillars the Initiative employs to reduce global breast cancer mortality and the evidence behind each pillar's target

Syllabus available here: https://www.uicc.org/sites/default/files/2024-09/2024091.pdf