Lauren Pretorius, CEO of Campaigning for Cancer Lauren Pretorius is the CEO and co-founder of Campaigning for Cancer NPC, an advocacy patient group that lobbies for the promotion and protection of patients' rights with regards to policy, healthcare costs and healthcare delivery. Pretorius has worked in the cancer civil society since 2005. She was the chief operating officer of Breast Health Foundation, a co-founder of Bosom Buddies and a consultant to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of South Africa, as well as various other cancer charities. Pretorius managed the pilot LIVESTRONG/American Cancer Society's SEI Survivor Forum in South Africa and has represented South Africa as a Global Cancer Ambassador for the UN's Resolution for Non-Communicable Diseases. She chaired the Civil Society Commission at the National Department of Health's NCD Summit and was a member of National Cancer Registry implementation team as well as a founding member of the executive committee of the Cancer Alliance. She serves as a director to the Lymphoma Coalition, an international alliance of 75 lymphoma patient groups across 42 countries. Most recently she was a signatory to the Presidential Health Compact and sat on the Joint Technical Monitoring and Evaluation Committee for the Compact in her role as head of the Patient User Network, a network of 118 health-related patient groups. As a specialist consultant, she assisted several non-profit organisations in applying business principles and marketing strategies to ensure their greater success and sustainability. From 2000 to 2003 she was contracted to the Nelson Mandela's Children Fund on brand governance and fundraising partner. She has conducted several stakeholder mapping research, developed patient advocacy and engagement strategies for a number of multi-national companies. She launched nine SETA accredited modules that cover various aspects of leading and managing a patient group with the aim to capacity builds patient into effective and professional leaders. Pretorius has spoken and presented as a key opinion leader at numerous local and international speaking engagements and has published several papers on cancer control. Campaigning for Cancer is a member of multiple local and international coalitions; including the International Kidney Cancer Coalition (IKCC), African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC); South African Health Technologies and Advocacy Coalition (SAHTAC); Lymphoma Coalition(LC); Childhood Cancer Network SA (CCNSA), South African Journalists' Association (SASJA); Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) Global Lung Cancer Coalition (GLCC); SARCOMA PATIENTS EURONET (SPAEN); International; Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Foundation (IWMF); Acute Leukemia Advocates Network(ALAN) World Bladder Cancer Patient Coalition(WBCPC) Pretorius is currently acting as a member representative to all such coalitions.
