Lauren Rosenthal

Leadership & Strategy

• Led the launch of the American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Roundtable (ACS NLCRT) in 2017, which has grown to a coalition of 225 multidisciplinary member organizations and 220 invited individuals in 7 years.
• Broad and direct influence over the development and evolution of a national strategy to reduce the impact of lung cancer.
• Oversees overall strategy, planning, implementation, and evaluation of ACS NLCRT priority initiatives and projects.
• Provides encouraging leadership support to ACS NCLRT Chairs, Steering Committee, and 10 topic-specific committees.
• Ensures ACS NLCRT goal achievement and mission advancement through effective leadership, engagement, empowerment, and mobilization of multiple diverse partners, productive constituents, and passionate volunteers.
• Identifies and effectively communicates opportunities to enhance ACS' strong reputation among the professional and patient advocate communities.

Operations & Management

• Directs and manages internal staff team, as well as external scientific/clinical and programmatic consultants, to achieve milestones and objectives.
• Engages collaboratively and strategically with other ACS National Roundtables, as well as internal business units, to ensure that alignment and integration of ACS mission, goals, and objectives are met and advanced.
• Oversees the work of multiple initiatives and projects to implement the ACS NLCRT strategic mission, long-term activities, and day-to-day operations.

Partnership

• Cultivates, solidifies, and maintains substantive high-level strategic and collaborative long-term partnerships with internal teams and external partners (professional societies, advocacy organizations, state and federal government agencies, health systems, and industry partners) around shared goals.
• Represents the ACS NLCRT on external partners' advisory boards/committees to leverage relationships with and increase activity of existing volunteers, thereby maximizing ACS' strategic priorities and efforts around reducing the impact of lung cancer.

Fundraising

• Responsible for fundraising activities and revenue portfolio growth driven by engaging priority relationships and key volunteer leaders, proposal writing and reporting, and monitoring financial expenditures and progress to budget.
• Supports continuous improvement of group strategies, program development and organizational effectiveness to drive revenue.

• As a Global Cancer Control Program Manager, oversaw the management of key regional and global cancer and noncommunicable disease prevention, early detection, and tobacco control capacity building programs and their communications strategies in Africa, India, and Latin America that focused on the American Cancer Society's (ACS) global priorities and partnership initiatives
• Collaborated with domestic and global policy stakeholders and funders internally and externally to promote women's cancer and noncommunicable disease programs that support local cancer organizations, hospitals, and Ministries of Health in their efforts to increase awareness about cancer prevention, global cancer advocacy and tobacco control
• Managed the day-to-day operations of the ACS Global Scholars program, which financially supported ten high-achieving young professionals from India, Nigeria, Kenya, and Rwanda to collect data that identified opportunities, ensured accountability, and maximized the impact of limited resources in their countries to improve breast and cervical cancer prevention and tobacco control capacity through partnership with their Ministries of Health and host organizations
• Advised the Scholars on methods to hone their public health research, oral and written communications, and advocacy and policy-making skills and served as a mentor on their projects along with other expert scientists, researchers, and cancer advocates from the American Cancer Society and its advocacy arm, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.

• Managed the medical- and public health-related domestic and global programs and initiatives, communications, creation and promotion of health message materials, and relationships on a national platform while serving as liaison from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, to a collaboration among the American Cancer Society (ACS), American Diabetes Association (ADA), American Heart Association (AHA), which was internally known as the Preventive Health Partnership (PHP)
• The Partnership's aim was to stimulate substantial improvements in prevention and early detection of chronic diseases through greater public awareness about healthy lifestyles.

• Managed the Retail Food Surveillance program, a collaboration among CDC, 10 participating state health departments, the U.S Food and Drug Administration, Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA), and the U.S Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service and Agricultural Research Services (USDA)
• Participating public health laboratories sent bacterial isolates found in our nation's meat supply to CDC for susceptibility testing.