Our Perspectives
Discover how City of Hope® is making hope a reality for cancer patients everywhere through curated stories and expert insights featured in leading publications and panels.
City of Hope is transforming cancer care by delivering the latest innovations and leading-edge treatments directly into more communities. Through our unique model, boundary-pushing research, policy innovation and advocacy efforts, City of Hope is closing the gap between advances in cancer care and the people who can actually access these lifesaving cures. Our leaders regularly contribute to the national conversation on advanced cancer care, with a diverse array of scientist, physician and executive voices featured across leading publications and key industry events.
Explore how City of Hope is transforming cancer care.
Expanding Access to Advanced Cancer Care
As one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, City of Hope is reinventing the future of cancer care by expanding access and creating a national model for integrated research and care. Learn about our vision and how we're helping more patients and their families receive advanced care.
December 4, 2024
Forbes Healthcare Summit
During a panel at the summit, City of Hope CEO, Robert Stone discusses the importance of comprehensive cancer centers and how they are bringing together biomedical research, treatment and academia to save lives.
April 26, 2023
Fortune Brainstorm Health
At the conference, City of Hope CEO Robert Stone discusses what makes City of Hope’s approach to cancer unique, and how we are building a national system that allows innovation and leading-edge research, care and treatment to be available to more and more patients families and communities.
March 10, 2024
SXSW 2024
This panel discusses how increasing collaboration and partnerships is critical to expanding access to optimal cancer care and making the goals of the “Cancer Moonshot” a reality.
September 29, 2023
The Atlantic Festival
Inspired by the Administration’s Cancer Moonshot initiative, stakeholders across the health care ecosystem are recognizing the importance of taking concrete action to address health disparities and increase access to optimal cancer care. Robert Stone, CEO of City of Hope, discusses how we can close the gaps in cancer care through policy and partnerships.
October 30, 2024
This article by Dr. Harlan Levine, President of Health Innovation and Policy at City of Hope, discusses how we should reimagine our approach to the community and academic medicine ecosystem to benefit cancer patients.
June 6, 2024
In this article, Dr. Harlan Levine, President of Health Innovation and Policy at City of Hope, discusses the widening gap between the rapid advancement of cancer treatments and the accessibility of those treatments to patients.
Transforming Cancer Care as We Know
At City of Hope, we’ve built a system where research leads to new treatments and the real-world experience of treating patients enables our scientists to develop new advances, faster. From cellular therapies to precision medicine, we are at the leading edge of innovation. Discover more about our boundary-pushing research and how we’re connecting the treatments of tomorrow to the patients who need them today.
September 17, 2024
Fast Company’s Innovation Festival
During the “The Power of Collaboration to Fight Cancer” panel, Robert Stone, CEO of City of Hope and the Helen and Morgan Chu Chief Executive Officer Distinguished Chair, shared how a visionary gift from the Stephenson family will allow City of Hope — in collaboration with like-minded researchers and physicians — to transform how pancreatic cancer is diagnosed and treated.
November 14, 2024
Milken Institute Future of Health Summit
This panel, featuring Dr. Harlan Levine, president and health innovation and policy at City of Hope, discusses how we can reimagine our approach to prevention, screening and treatment for young adults with cancer.
October 20, 2024
HLTH 2024
This panel, featuring Dr. Harlan Levine, president and health innovation and policy at City of Hope, addresses the increased incidence in younger populations and exploring how we can reimagine our approach to screening, early detection and care to better serve this patient population.
June 26, 2023
This article shines a light on Leslie Popplewell, M.D., Medical Director of Hematology and Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, City of Hope Atlanta. Dr. Popplewell previously served at City of Hope Los Angeles for more than 20 years as a hematologic oncologist and chief of the Division of Lymphoma, Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and associate medical director of The Briskin Center for Clinical Research, and is now bringing City of Hope’s world-renowned expertise in BMT and CAR T-cell therapy to patients in Atlanta, Georgia, and the surrounding communities.
July 18, 2023
This article published by Becker’s Hospital Review outlines how City of Hope has utilized personalized team-based care, a unified EHR and oncology pathways as its grown into a national cancer research and treatment organization to deliver high-value care across its clinical network.
Policy Innovation and Patient Advocacy
We believe that access to advanced cancer care should be a human right — and we’re fighting for it. At City of Hope, we are raising awareness and driving solutions on issues related to access, inequity and barriers to care. Learn how we’re advocating on behalf of cancer patients everywhere and partnering with leading stakeholders across the cancer community to connect more people to the advanced cancer care available today.
October 10, 2023
HLTH 2023
This panel discusses how policy innovation and collaborative partnerships can advance health equity for cancer patients.
June 8, 2023
The Hill
Policymakers, health experts and patient advocates, including City of Hope’s president of health innovation and policy, Harlan Levine, discuss the changes to the cancer care delivery system required to bring proven advancements and tomorrow’s lifesaving treatments to more patients today.
November 14, 2024
As Illinois faces higher cancer mortality rates for most cancer types, a broad coalition of cancer organizations calls for all Illinois cancer patients to have a fundamental right to the latest cancer treatments.
November 7, 2023
Will your health insurance give you access to the best possible cancer treatment? Dr. Harlan Levine, President of Health Innovation and Policy at City of Hope says that’s a question more than 60 million Medicare recipients should consider during open enrollment.
November 8, 2023
In this article, Harlan Levine, President of Health Innovation and Policy at City of Hope, talks about efforts to improve health equity and produce better outcomes for underserved communities.
February 8, 2023
On September 28, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed the California Cancer Care Equity Act (SB 987) into law. By expanding access to specialized cancer care for Medi-Cal patients who receive a complex cancer diagnosis, this important bill, which went into effect January 1, 2023, will benefit and save countless lives.
September 3, 2021
In this article, Dr. Harlan Levine, President of Health Innovation and Policy at City of Hope, explains why incredible advances in cancer care are of no benefit to cancer patients if they can’t access them and how our current system places barriers in their path to accessing the optimal clinical care for their diagnosis.