ICCA: Innovation for Cancer Care in Africa

What are new industry-health sector linkages that can improve cancer care in Kenya and Tanzania?

Access to cancer care is an emerging health crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa. This project’s primary research in Kenya and Tanzania will add to the knowledge of this health challenge, and investigate how local industry could help to improve cancer care. In searching for new industrial-health linkages to tackle the crisis, the project will draw on evidence from India and the UK of emerging low-cost innovation. This India-East Africa-UK collaboration will generate new shared knowledge across countries and between the academic, industrial, policy, and health sectors. The main outcomes of this project will be practical research-informed scenarios.

Team

Lead Institution
The Open University

UCL PI
Professor Joanna Chataway, Dr Ine Steenmans

Academic collaborators
The Open University; Tanzania Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF); Kenya Medical Research Institute; University of Edinburgh, Science Technology and Innovation Studies; University of Sussex, Science Policy Research Unit; National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Industry collaborators
ESRC

Key publications

Steenmans, I., Daniels, C., Makene, F., Ngoma, T., Mujinja, P.G.M., Mackintosh, M., Cross, C., Ngilangwa, R. and Chataway, J. (2021) 'Cancer pain management in Tanzania: using scenarios to explore critical interrelationships and potential interventions'. ESRF and ICCA Working Paper.