Benefits
What we offer you
Membership in a global community
- formulating and implementing cancer control strategies worldwide
- developing partnerships with colleagues worldwide
- influencing national and international policy
- sharing best practices and building more efficient institutions
Promotion of your work
- sponsoring your prevention activities through capacity-building grants
- disseminating information on your activities through UICC website and newsletters
- promoting your meetings in the calendar of international cancer conferences
- offering an advocacy platform for cancer control initiatives
- recognizing your organization in UICC documents
Driving UICC
- voting in the general assembly (full members only)
- nominating members to the board of directors
- engaging in global debates and communication
- participating in expert task forces
Sharing in UICC events
- hosting the World Cancer Congress or other UICC conferences and seminars
- sponsoring sessions and side meetings at the World Cancer Congress
- UICC auspices for your meetings (free of charge, but subject to approval)
- substantially reduced registration fees for the World Cancer Congress
- a gala dinner at the general assembly
Training
- fellowships for cancer investigators, clinicians and nurses, as well as cancer society staff and volunteers
- institutional development resources for voluntary societies
- professional development resources for staff and volunteers
- opportunities to take part in UICC topical seminars
- workshops at the World Cancer Congress
What you can offer us
What we expect from members
- promote tobacco control in your community
- support national and international cancer control campaigns
- uphold UICC mission statement and policy recommendations
- share UICC information and materials with your constituency
- provide copies of all major documentation, including annual reports and publications
- notify the UICC of significant national developments and policy changes of interest to the global community
- timely of annual dues
Make the most of your UICC membership by
- appointing a staff member as a UICC liaison
- participating in the World Cancer Campaign and World Cancer Day
- endorsing the World Cancer Declaration and engaging in related activities
- participating in the World Cancer Congress and sponsoring symposiums
- participating in UICC general assembly
- voting in UICC elections (full members only)
- being elected and serving on UICC board of directors
- contributing to UICC task forces and committees
- using UICC logo at your events, conferences and publications (free of charge, but subject to approval)
- contributing to UICC solidarity fund to help cancer organizations in resource-constrained settings
- encouraging your staff and volunteers to make use of UICC’s online resources, such as the Global Cancer Control Community
- helping to maintain UICC projects, policies, events and publications at the highest possible level
- benefiting from substantial price reductions on UICC publications
Contact Membership Team
Co-ordinator Membership - Annie Imhof
e-mail: membership@uicc.org
phone: +41 22 809 18 79
