Dr Christian Ntizimira

 

 

 

Dr. Christian Ntizimira is a specialist in palliative and end-of-life care in Rwanda and a global advocate. A Fulbright Alumni, he graduated from the prestigious Harvard Medical School in Global Health and Social
Medicine. He was the former City Manager from the City Cancer Challenge Foundation.
Dr. Ntizimira is the winner of the prestigious Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prizes 2021, awarded annually for extraordinary leadership—in any field and any country—that is courageous, innovative, rooted in universal values, and global in the application or in aspiration.
In 2018 he became the first advocacy/policy champion among extraordinary individuals who are making a significant contribution to developing palliative care in low- and middle-income countries for World Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA). From 2010–13, he was the director of Kibagabaga Hospital in Kigali. Dr. Ntizimira was named Young Cancer Leader by the Union for International Cancer Control in 2016 and Distinguished Young Leader by the Harvard Global Health Catalyst in 2017.