Zurak Cancer Foundation Meets Visualize


Zurak Cancer Foundation held a meeting with Maria Young (Co-Founder of Visualize) from University of Michigan to discuss about a low-fidelity cervical cancer training model that aids healthcare providers to learn how to screen for cervical cancer using Visual Inspection of The Cervix With Acetic Acid (VIA). Moreover, we were joined by Dr Caryn Agyeman Prempeh to also discuss how best to make the model available to healthcare in order to provide low-cost and effective cervical cancer screening


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