IARC hosts partners for meeting of IARC Initiative for Resilience in Cancer Control

Scientists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) hosted collaborators and partners for a seminar and workshop on the IARC Initiative for Resilience in Cancer Control (IRCC). The seminar, “Health system resilience and cancer control: from analytical frameworks to real-world applications”, and the workshop, which aimed to develop a collaborative work plan on resilience in cancer control, took place on 18 June 2026.

The seminar included an address by Professor Alessandro Jatobá, Deputy Head of the Laboratório de Tecnologia, Informação e Resiliência em Saúde Pública (ResiliSUS) of the Centro de Estudos Estratégicos Antônio Ivo de Carvalho (CEE), part of the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dr Marco Paschoalotto, Deputy Director of the Center for Political Science Research (CICP) at the University of Minho, Portugal, also delivered remarks. After the seminar, the IARC IRCC team hosted the workshop.

This was the first joint event held since IARC and Fiocruz signed a Memorandum of Understanding for international cooperation on 21 May 2026, during the scientific conference for IARC’s 60th anniversary. Fiocruz is the largest biomedical research institution in Latin America.

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