Global Humanitarian Award Archives

Swee Chong Quek

Year: 2026

Swee Chong Quek, MBBCh, BAO (Dublin), MRCOG (UK), FAMS (Singapore) ASC Clinic for Women, Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore Dr. Swee Chong Quek is the recipient of the 2026 IGCS Global Humanitarian Award, honoring a career-long commitment to preventing cervical cancer among underserved women across Asia. Dr. Quek is a specialist in Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the ASC Clinic for Women in Gleneagles Hospital, and formerly Senior Consultant & Head of the Pre-invasive Disease & Screening Uni..

Barry Rosen, MD and Allan Covens, MD, FRCSC

Year: 2025

Dr. Barry Rosen and Dr. Allan Covens have been selected as the recipients of the 2025 IGCS Global Humanitarian Award, recognizing their outstanding commitment to global mentorship and their transformative contributions to gynecologic oncology training in low-resource settings. Since 2008, Drs. Rosen and Covens have been deeply involved in building and leading the gynecologic oncology training program at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya, as part of the AMPATH consortium led by Indiana Universit..

Mila Salcedo, MD, PhD and Ida Ismail-Pratt, MBchB, MRCOG

Year: 2024

The IGCS Global Humanitarian Award honors Drs. Salcedo and Ismail-Pratt for utilizing their clinical expertise and commitment to mentorship and training to reduce the burden of cervical cancer in areas of the world that need it most. With other 550 participants enrolled or having completed the training program from 99 countries, the reach of the program continues to expand. With more trained experts in the world, everyone can have access to the necessary prevention, screening, and treatment that..

Professor Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PHD

Year: 2023

Professor Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PHD currently resides in Rwanda having returned to the country in 1996, two years after the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. She is the retired Vice Chancellor and co-founder of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) (in 2015), an initiative of Partners In Health based in Rwanda which focuses on changing how health care is delivered around the world by training global health professionals who strive to deliver more equitable, quality health services ..

Olha Hoptyana and PTGO

Year: 2022

Dr. Ohla Hoptyana, Gynecologic Oncologist at the National Cancer Institute in Kyiv Ukraine is being honored with the IGCS Global Humanitarian Award for her instrumental role in coordinating care for gynecologic cancer patients in need during the war in Ukraine. Dr. Hoptyana is one of many noble citizens and clinicians who surpassed their duty of care by standing by the patients under their care, even under the threat of war and the sound of sirens. She worked closely with contacts at the Polish ..

Tri Dinh

Year: 2021

Dr. Dinh is being honored with the IGCS Global Humanitarian Award for his commitment to quality patient care that extends to his homeland in Vietnam. As President and founder of Project TVD (Team of Volunteer Doctors), he has trained countless physicians and nurses. As an international mentor, he was instrumental in launching the first pilot site of the IGCS Global Curriculum and Mentorship Program in Vietnam, which was also the first fellowship program in gynecologic oncology in Vietnam. In all..

Edward Trimble

Year: 2018

For developing initiatives and collaborating with low- and middle-income countries to support cancer control planning, build capacity and support cancer research and training. They have been instrumental in assisting IGCS to make inroads into under penetrated regions of the world. About Dr. Edward Trimble In 2011 Dr. Harold Varmus, then Director of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) appointed Dr. Trimble the founding Director of NCI’s new Center for Global Health (CGH). Under Dr. Trimble�..

Lynette Denny

Year: 2016

Lynette Denny is the Chair and Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and registered sub-specialist in gynaecological oncology at Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town. Her research interest for the past 15 years has been in preventing cervical cancer in low resource settings and she has published over 100 peer reviewed papers on the subject. She has been a keynote speaker at numerous international conferences. She was awarded the “Distinguished Scientist for Improving the Qua..