The Cartographies of Cancer Team—Thandeka Cochrane, Jennifer Fraser and David Reubi—is inviting you to join an interactive journey into the hidden worlds of cancer mapping, asking “how are global cancer maps made?”

Join them at Science Gallery London for a hands-on journey into the hidden world of cancer cartography—from scribbled doctors' notes in local clinics to sweeping global health maps. In this workshop led by experts from the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer and the African Cancer Registry Network, they invite you to step into the role of researcher and discover how clinical case files, global surveillance systems and digital tools come together to shape our understanding of cancer across continents.

Together, you will ask: How do patient files sitting in hospital shelves across Africa become legible to international institutions? How does cancer registrars turn a morass of notes and bits of papers into transferrable data? How do global health digital map makers then turn these numbers into neat images on maps? What is preserved, transformed, and lost in the process? And what consequences follow from mapping disease in particular ways? They are very much look forward to seeing you there!

This event is part of the Being Human Festival and is supported by the Wellcome Trust and the Society for the Social History of Medicine.