Law can be a highly effective and influential tool to reduce the impact of cancer on individuals and communities. Engaging with law making and policy development is now an essential part of cancer prevention and control.
In this webinar, the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer will demystify the law for cancer clinicians, researchers, policymakers, people affected by cancer and cancer advocates.
The McCabe Centre
The McCabe Centre empowers individuals, organisations and governments to use law to prevent cancer and other noncommunicable diseases, and to advance equitable health care for all people. The McCabe Centre hosts the WHO Collaborating Centre of Law and Noncommunicable Disease and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Knowledge Hub on Legal Challenges.
This session will explore key insights including:
Hayley Jones is Director of the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer, a joint initiative of Cancer Council Victoria, the Union for International Cancer Control and Cancer Council Australia. Hayley leads the McCabe Centre’s legal experts based in Australia, Samoa, Kenya, New Zealand and the Philippines.
Hayley is Co-Chair of the Executive Board for the Australian Network of WHO Collaborating Centres and sits on the WHO WPRO Technical Advisory Group on NCDs. Dual-qualified as a lawyer in Australia and England, Hayley’s background includes legal initiatives supporting access to justice, health and education for children, migrants and people living in poverty, focused on ensuring no one is left behind.
Suzanne leads the McCabe Centre’s work to support countries to adopt effective laws to prevent non-communicable diseases and defend public health laws from legal challenge.
Suzanne has a background in international law and served as co-director of the Hague Academy of International Law’s 2020-2021 Centre for Studies and Research. She is currently a member of World Cancer Research Fund International’s Policy Advisory Group and the Union for International Cancer Control’s expert task force on air pollution and cancer.
Suzanne has previously worked at Lawyers Collective in New Delhi as a research officer supporting the mandate of Anand Grover as the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health.
Tarishi Desai leads the McCabe Centre’s work on using law to address cancer care and control issues including improving access to cancer care, human rights and cancer inequities, and the regulation of health service providers and health information.
Tarishi sits on the Advisory Board of the Union for International Cancer Control’s Cancer Advocates Program. She has worked as a solicitor advising both individuals and organisations including those in the health and aged care sector. Her legal experience has a strong focus on social justice issues including anti-discrimination and equal opportunity and promoting human rights.
Prior to her legal career, Tarishi worked as clinical researcher with the University of Melbourne’s Department of Medicine and has published both scientific and legal academic papers.
