Volunteer with RAD-AID Radiation Oncology
RAD-AID International is committed to addressing the World Health Organization Global Health Target of reducing mortality from non-communicable diseases, like cancer. To that end, the RAD-AID Radiation Oncology Program is a critical part of RAD-AID’s comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to cancer imaging and treatment. RAD-AID Radiation Oncology teams work with local colleagues in Nigeria, Kenya, Peru, and Tanzania through hands-on training and education.
RAD-AID is continuing its outreach efforts to optimize oncology services from diagnosis to cancer treatment. RAD-AID’s focused cancer-control pipeline approach incorporates diagnostic imaging, interventional radiology, and radiation oncology in a multidisciplinary framework to reduce cancer mortality.
- Medical Dosimetrists: If you are a member of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists and are interested in volunteering, please sign-up here.
- It is with great excitement that the AAMD and RAD-AID have partnered to offer global health outreach opportunities for medical dosimetrists. To learn more about the RAD-AID AAMD Global Medical Dosimetry Program, click here. To read about the 2020-2021 collaboration during the global health lockdown, click here.
- Nurses: If you are a nurse, please sign-up via RAD-AID Nursing.
- Physicists: If you are a physicist, please sign-up via RAD-AID Medical Physics.
- Radiation Oncologists: For MD’s interested in volunteering, please sign-up via RAD-AID Radiation Oncology.
- Radiation Therapists: If you are a radiation therapist, RAD-AID and ASRT are collaborating to offer funded opportunities for radiation therapists to volunteer with RAD-AID Radiation Oncology. Similar opportunities are also available via the RAD-AID and CAMRT and the RAD-AID SCoR collaborations.
RAD-AID Radiation Oncology Leadership and Partners at NSIA-LUTH Cancer Centre, Lagos, Nigeria, 2023
History of the Program
In 2014, RAD-AID and the ASRT Foundation began collaborating to offer funded opportunities to support radiation therapists interested in serving in China. These efforts created the RAD-AID Cancer Imaging and Treatment Program, which began in Yinchuan, China at Affiliated Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, where RAD-AID worked in 2010 and sent a delegation to work and teach in May 2014.
RAD-AID Radiation Therapy Team in Nigeria, 2023
Under the leadership of Program Directors, Shilpen Patel, MD, FACRO and Alichia J. White, CMD, MBA, RT(T) and Program Manager, Ruth Afanador, MBA, RT(T)(CT), the efforts of the RAD-AID Radiation Oncology Program have continued to expand. With a partnership at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in Nairobi, Kenya, and other sites under development in Nigeria, Ethiopia and Peru, the importance of interdisciplinary oncology teams has emerged as a priority. RAD-AID has an established relationship at KNH and the timing of a radiation oncology team visit was very impactful because the site recently received its first linear accelerator this year previously they had only Cobalt-60 units. In 2024, RAD-AID expanded our collaboration to include Kenyatta University Teaching, Research, and Referral Hospital (KUTRRH) in Nairobi, Kenya.
The RAD-AID Radiation Oncology Program has expanded to include additional regional program locations and a collaboration with the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists announced in 2020 to strengthen the multidisciplinary nature of the RAD-AID Cancer Imaging and Treatment Program.