Wilfred Ngwa

Dr. Wil Ngwa is an associate professor of Radiation Oncology at Johns Hopkins University, and Distinguished Professor of Public Health at ICT University. He is founding Director of the Global Health Catalyst, dedicated to catalyzing high impact collaborations to reduce global cancer health disparities. Dr. Ngwa also recently held guest professorships at the University of Pennsylvania USA, and University of Heidelberg Germany. He has won numerous awards with 17 prestigious awards/honors over the past 5 years alone, including 2 awards on global radiation oncology, 2 awards for Research Excellence from the United States National Institutes of Health, the 2019 BWH Physician Organization Award, and the 2015 BWH BrIght Futures Prize at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Ngwa is also founding director of the award-winning Global Oncology University education platform focused on training oncology health professionals at Low and Middle Income Countries. Dr. Ngwa is currently a chair of the Lancet Oncology Commission for Sub-Saharan Africa. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Global Oncology, Frontiers in Oncology, and is the Series Editor for the IOP Science Publishing series on Global Health and Radiation Oncology. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers including in journals like Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.