A delivery-science moonshot for prevention we already own
Around four in ten cancers are preventable with tools that exist now. This would fund the hard, unglamorous work of getting vaccines, screening and tobacco control to everyone, paid on results.
An ARPA-style programme, but for implementation: it funds and rigorously evaluates ways to reach 90% HPV and hepatitis B vaccine coverage, H. pylori test-and-treat in high-incidence populations, tobacco cessation embedded in lung screening, and alcohol and obesity policy trials. Payments are milestone- and outcome-based (coverage achieved, quitters verified) rather than for papers. The scientific content is behavioural economics, health-systems engineering and policy evaluation, which conventional cancer funders rarely score well.
- Funding follows fashion, not burden · Money goes to the cancers and questions that are easy or popular, not the ones that kill most or where a dollar would do most.
- Prevention we already have is not deployed · Around four in ten cancers are preventable with tools we already own: vaccines, tobacco control, weight, alcohol, sun and infection control.
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