International Regional Strategies
The current overall international strategies of Global Academic Programs are as follows:
To enhance cancer care and research in a region by:
- Helping to train the next generation of researchers, physicians and allied health professionals
- Establishing research and clinical trial collaborations
- Encouraging interactions with other institutions and organizations in a country and in a region
- Demonstrating the MD Anderson model as a powerful approach to multidisciplinary, research-driven patient care
To maximize the impact for MD Anderson faculty and staff time and effort by:
- Leveraging MD Anderson faculty knowledge of the region, their contacts and existing collaborations
- Selecting individual partners who are alumni or are very familiar with our institution and its research and clinical practices
- Selecting institutional partners that are of a high level and that have a high impact in their region
- Understanding our partners' needs and interests in the relationship and explicitly defining the mutual benefit
- Understanding the cultural, economic and political climate of the country and region
- Partnering, where appropriate, with other U.S. institutions and international organizations
- Enabling faculty access to unique populations, cancers and cancer stages of interest for comparative research
To enhance patient care, research, prevention and education at MD Anderson, in Texas and the U.S. by:
- Learning from different international medical models
- Enabling faculty access to unique populations, cancers and cancer stages of interest to this institution for comparative research
- Focusing on disease sites of mutual interest and impact for the U.S. and the region