Associate Professor Mei Ling Yap is a clinician researcher based in Liverpool and Campbelltown Hospitals and the George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. A/Prof Yap’s clinical, research and educational work is focused on a vision to achieve equity in cancer control locally and globally. A/Prof Yap is a Senior Staff Specialist Radiation Oncologist whose clinical interests are in breast and lung cancer – expertise which she developed during a clinical research fellowship at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, from 2011-2013. A/Prof Yap is a National Project Coordinator for the IAEA Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperative Agreement (RCA). She is leading an RCA Technical Cooperation Project (2024-2025) “Strengthening cancer care and research by training radiation oncology health professionals in RCA Member States in data collection through radiation oncology electronic management systems". From 2016-2022, A/Prof Yap was the co-chair of the Asia Pacific Radiation Oncology Special Interest Group (APROSIG) of the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR-FRO), a volunteer organisation which supports the development of safe and sustainable radiation therapy in low- and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific. APROSIG collaborates with oncology departments in Cambodia, Mongolia and Papua New Guinea. A/Prof Yap currently holds a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leader Investigator Grant “Harnessing big data to improve access to care and outcomes in Recent Migrants and Refugees diagnosed with Cancer”. Dr Yap is a steering committee member of the Global impact of Oncology on Radiotherapy (GIRO-ESTRO project).