Ghanaian paediatric oncologist Emmanuella Amoako has won the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s 2026 Roux Prize, which carries a $100,000 award, Graphic Online reported on August 15.
Amoako, based at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, established a shared-care paediatric oncology service in 2019 that has treated more than 150 children, bringing cancer care closer to families who would otherwise travel to Accra or Kumasi.
She developed COMPASS, or Community Parents Navigating Support for Early Childhood Cancer Detection, which trained 10 parent navigators and 100 health workers in its first months. The model uses parents of treated children to shorten the interval between first symptom and diagnosis.
Christopher J.L. Murray, Director of IHME, said her work translates clinical research into practical improvements across diagnosis and treatment.
Amoako also works with The African Cancer Atlas on the underrepresentation of African patients in cancer genomics research, a gap that limits how well risk models and drug responses generalise to African populations.
She is currently a Cancer Genetics Fellow at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. The award will be presented at a ceremony in London on October 14.
Why it matters: Childhood cancer survival in West Africa turns on time to diagnosis, and Amoako’s model attacks that delay directly.
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