What we’ve achieved
HPP acts as Secretariat to the Lung Cancer Policy Network, an initiative of the Lung Ambition Alliance set up in 2021. The Network is a global alliance of lung cancer experts, including clinicians, researchers, patient organisations and industry partners.
The Network’s initial goal was to create a community to enable exchange of lessons learnt from the implementation of lung cancer screening. As the Network has developed, our goals have expanded to encompass wider aspects of early detection, care pathways and policy advocacy.
Since 2022, the Network has produced a wide range of resources under three workstreams:
- Early detection of lung cancer
- Lung cancer screening
- Care pathways for lung cancer
As part of the lung cancer screening workstream, the Network has created tools including an interactive map of lung cancer screening, which showcases recent and ongoing clinical trials, implementation studies, and national/regional organised LDCT screening programmes around the world, and a framework to support the implementation of LDCT lung cancer screening, which takes a health systems approach to enable a robust assessment of readiness to implement a lung cancer screening programme.
The interactive map of lung cancer screening was shortlisted as a finalist for the Excellence in Communicating and Using Data category at the 2023 Communiqué Awards.
As Secretariat, HPP created and manages the Lung Cancer Policy Network’s website, X (Twitter), LinkedIn and YouTube accounts.
