Twalib Ngoma

Twalib Ngoma is the founder of Tanzania’s National Cancer Institute based at the Ocean Road Cancer Institute. He has dedicated much of his career to improving cancer services in Africa in general and Tanzania specifically. He received his MD degree in 1978 at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and did post graduate training in Clinical Oncology in the UK from 1982 to 1989. Upon returning to Tanzania in 1989, he worked as a Consultant in Clinical Oncology at Muhimbili University Teaching Hospital until 1996, when he was appointed by the President of the United Republic of Tanzania to be the Executive Director of Ocean Road Cancer Institute and advisor to the Ministry of Health Tanzania on Cancer Control. He was the Head of the International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (INCTR) from 2002 to 2014, President of African Organization for Training and Research in Cancer (AORTIC) from 2007 to 2009 and has been a technical adviser to the IAEA and WHO on Cancer Control several times. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Lyon based International Prevention Research Institute (iPRI) and is one of the authors of a book on the State of Oncology in Africa 2015. In addition to this he was involved in the production of a film on Cancer is attacking Africa. He has more than 50 publications in peer reviewed journals and has a demonstrated record of accomplished and productive research projects in cancer and palliative care. He also serves as a member of Editorial Board in five peer reviewed international journals.