The Bama Buzz recently highlighted OPERATION WIPE OUT’s third annual summit, which heads to Mobile for the first time on Friday, January 9, 2026.
In the article “Operation Wipe Out going to Mobile for cervical cancer prevention summit,” writer Caleb Turrentine explores how Alabama’s cervical cancer elimination effort has grown into a statewide movement in less than three years.
Summit Highlights
The free event, limited to 150 attendees, will be held at the MacQueen Alumni Center Ballroom on the University of South Alabama campus from 10 AM to 2 PM. The day will feature:
- Keynote speaker Jennifer Pierce, MD
- Cervical Cancer Elimination Pillars panel
- HPV Vaccination Southeast Roundtable
- Updates on OPERATION WIPE OUT’s progress
Registration is required by December 22. Register here.
From The Article
“This is the only cancer that can be eliminated. Who doesn’t want to do that?” said Dr. Isabel Scarinci in the piece, emphasizing the mission that drives OPERATION WIPE OUT.
The article also features insights from Nancy Wright, MPH, Director of Cancer Prevention and Control at the Alabama Department of Public Health, who discusses the collaborative approach that makes OPERATION WIPE OUT unique.
“For the first time especially in Public Health, people are coming to us,” Wright told The Bama Buzz. “This attention and notoriety that comes from being the first state in the nation to have a plan and launch a comprehensive effort like this, to try to reach everybody across the state.”
Read the full article at The Bama Buzz
Event Details:
Friday, January 9, 2026 | 10 AM – 2 PM
MacQueen Alumni Center Ballroom, University of South Alabama
100 Alumni Drive, Mobile, AL 36688
Free admission | Register by December 22