Dr. Cesaltina Lorenzoni is a pathologist, Head of the National Cancer Control Program at the Mozambican Ministry of Health, Director of Science and Teaching at Maputo Central Hospital, and Professor of Pathology at the Eduardo Mondlane University Faculty of Medicine. She holds a master’s degree in public health in Cancer Epidemiology through Eduardo Mondlane University, a Master’s Degree in Policy and Health Program Planning, and a PhD in International Health and Translational Epidemiology of Cancer from the University of Barcelona, Spain.
As Head of the National Cancer Control Programme and Scientific and Teaching Director at Maputo Central Hospital, she has improved training for residents in cervical cancer prevention. She has supported and promoted the IGCS fellowship program in Mozambique to enhance the capacity of Gynecology Oncology. In partnership with MD Anderson, she has designed and supported training programs to improve the quality of cervical cancer screening and treatment of women with preinvasive cervical disease throughout the country of Mozambique.
Dr. Lorenzoni’s research interests are cancer epidemiology, cancer prevention, and the building of cancer registries. She has served as principal investigator for many research projects in these areas in partnership with international institutions. She has published more than 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has authored chapters in two books published by the African Cancer Registry Network
(AFCRN), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC).
Currently, she is the Coordinator and Principal Investigator of four research projects, including records of population-based cancer registries in Maputo City and throughout Mozambique, project ECHO as a tool to assist providers in Mozambique delivering cervical cancer screening services through telementoring, prevention of cervical cancer through the development and use of lower cost methods for detection of HPV and development of new technologies for diagnosis of preinvasive cervical disease, a training program for Obstetrics & Gynecology Residents in the diagnosis and management of women with preinvasive cervical disease ( Capacity building for gynecology residents at Maputo Central Hospital in management of women with preinvasive cervical disease through clinical skills building (colposcopy, LEEP) and classroom training)
She is a member of the Education and Training Committee of the African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC). She represented Portuguese Speaking Languague in Africa (PALOP) from 2020 to 2021.
She served as the President of the Association of Fight Against Cancer of Mozambique from 2013 to July 2022.