Beyond HPV vaccination: Why we need a comprehensive approach to eliminate cervical cancer
The elimination of cervical cancer is within our reach – with commitment, investment and coordinated effort.
Sofiat Akinola is a Director of Health Policy and External Affairs at Roche Diagnostics working on analyzing policy landscape and engaging global stakeholders to transform the way diseases can be prevented, diagnosed and monitored to keep populations healthy and health systems transformation.
Prior to joining Roche Diagnostics, Sofiat was a Global Health Lead at the World Economic Forum where her portfolio focused on Value-Based Healthcare, Universal Health Coverage and Healthy Ageing and Longevity. Sofiat led the portfolio on Health Ageing and Longevity with the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Healthy Ageing and Longevity, a dynamic platform for leading businesses, governments, civil society organizations and world class experts to shape the global healthy ageing and longevity agenda, generate and disseminate new contents and insights and engage multiple actors to co-create solutions to boost the impact of healthy life expectancy.
Sofiat worked in the NGO and Government sectors where she built monitoring and evaluation skills to support strategies ranging from Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Initiative to Ending Homeless in Alberta, Canada. Sofiat has two Masters, one from University of Oxford on Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation with a focus on Impact Evaluation and from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, where she received an MSc. and MPH. Sofiat also received her Bachelor’s degree from McGill University in Sociology focusing on Gender, Health and International Development.
The elimination of cervical cancer is within our reach – with commitment, investment and coordinated effort.
早在 2015年和 2016年,当我还在完成英国牛津大学的硕士学位课程时,我的关注重点便落在了“消除宫颈癌”这一全球性议题上。我的论文有一个非常特别的焦点,那就是研究了解博茨瓦纳、卢旺达和南非这三个不同国家针对宫颈癌的不同政策和战略,从而找到在将宫颈癌政策付诸实施过程中存在的障碍和解决方案。
Back in 2015 and 2016, as I was wrapping up my Master’s program at the University of Oxford (UK), my focus was on a matter of global significance – cervical cancer elimination. My dissert...
A health concern of global significance, cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers women face worldwide. Yet, despite its high prevalence, cervical cancer is largely preventable a...
The world population is ageing, and on average we are living longer. A person aged 65 years in 2015-2020 on average will live up to 82 years. By 2045-2050, this figure is expected to reac...
On average, people around the world are living longer. In 2020, 727 million persons were aged 65 years or older and the population aged 65 years or over is projected to double to reach ov...
世界人口正在变老。许多国家的人口预期寿命已增至 70 岁或以上,许多人现在都活到 80 多岁和 90 多岁。百岁老人(100 岁或以上)的人数也在增加。全球人口正在从年轻型走向老龄化,预计每一代人的寿命都会比上一代长。
The world population is getting older. Life expectancy has increased to 70 years or more in many countries and many people now live well into their 80s and 90s. There is also a rise in ce...
長寿化に伴い、労働人口の状況が変わりつつあります。経済協力開発機構(OECD)諸国では、労働年齢層(15~64歳)に占める65歳以上の高齢者の割合は、2050年までに5人に2人になると予測されていますが、これは2018年には4人に1人だった数値です。世界の人口は2050年に99億人に達すると見込まれており、そのうちおよそ21%(21億人)が60歳以上の高齢者となるのです。
The landscape of our workforce is changing as we are living longer. Across the OECD, the ratio of older people aged 65 and over to people of working age (15-64) is projected to reach 2 in...
It is a well-known fact that the population in Asia is aging. In this region, the proportion of the population aged over 65 is predicted to nearly double, from 7.73 percent in 2015 to 15....
世界的な高齢化が進んでいます。多くの国で平均寿命が70歳を超え、2020年には歴史上初めて、60歳以上の高齢者の数が5歳以下の子どもを上回りました。
The global population is ageing. Life expectancy has increased to 70 years or more in many countries. In 2020, for the first time in history, individuals aged 60 or older outnumbered chil...
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic which started as an outbreak in one country, and very quickly travelled around the world, makes a strong case for investment in global public h...
新型コロナウイルスのパンデミック(世界的大流行)は、世界中の高齢者に深刻な影響を及ぼし、高齢者の心身の健康と家計に壊滅的な打撃を与えています。知らぬ間に進むエイジズム(年齢差別)の影響は、これらの課題を解決するのを一層難しくさせています。