The Brazilian fellows visit the American Cancer Society National Home Office in Atlanta. From left to right: Gustavo Azenha, manager, Brazilian Initiatives, American Cancer Society; Dr. Maira Caleffi, founding president of FEMAMA; Regina Vargas, advocacy coordinator for FEMAMA.
Two representatives of the Brazilian breast cancer coalition Federação Brasileira de Instituções Filantropicas de Apoio a Saude da Mama (FEMAMA) recently participated in a weeklong American Cancer Society fellowship, awarded to them after receiving an American Cancer Society Latin America Best Practice Award for networking. The fellows, Maira Caleffi, MD, PhD, founding president of FEMAMA, and Regina Vargas, advocacy coordinator for FEMAMA, visited American Cancer Society offices in Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington, D.C., to share their knowledge and experience about breast cancer control in Brazil and learn more about governance and advocacy issues from American Cancer Society staff. At the American Cancer Society’s National Home Office (NHO) in Atlanta, the fellows met with John R. Seffrin, PhD, chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society, as well as other Society leaders. They also gave a presentation to the NHO staff on the breast cancer burden in Brazil and FEMAMA’s advocacy work. In Washington, Bob Chapman, director of operations for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action NetworkSM (ACS CAN) and other ACS CAN staff provided Caleffi and Vargas with a detailed look at American Cancer Society advocacy initiatives, including media engagement, policy development, campaign planning, grassroots mobilization, and new media advocacy. (ACS CAN is the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the Society). The fellows returned to Brazil with a wealth of exciting new ideas and strategies to strengthen FEMAMA coalition governance, enrich grassroots outreach, enhance advocacy actions, and catalyze positive changes in breast cancer control in Brazil.
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Posted by: mike | 05 June 2009 at 07:32 PM