Global Surgery: Towards Equitable Surgical Systems
In early March of 2016, the Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery - Dubai convened partners from across the world to share lessons learned and initial best practices in developing multi-stakeholder national surgical planning efforts. This symposium took a critical look at the outputs of the Commission report and its various implementation efforts while facilitating cross learning amongst participants. Click on the photos to read more about each participant.
Lecturer, Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery - Dubai
Co-Chair, The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery Director, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change Kletjian Professor of Global Surgery, Harvard Medical School Plastic Surgeon-in-Chief, Boston Children's Hospital
Co-Chair, The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery Consultant, King's College London
Co-Chair, The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery Consultant, Lund University
Lead for Essential and Emergency Surgical Care, World Health Organization
Director, AusAid Timor Leste Surgical Program Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Head of Hospital and General Surgeon State Border Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan Military Hospital
General Surgeon Hospital Augustinho Neto
President, College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA)
Director, Gudalur Adivasi Hospital
Commissioner, Lancet Commission on Global Surgery
President, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland
Chair, Department of Surgery American University of Beirut Medical Center
Minister of Health, Madagascar
Director of Partnerships, Ministry of Health, Madagascar
Partnership Director, Ministry of Health, Madagascar
Chief Executive Officer, Indus Hospital
Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, University of the Philippines
Corporate Citizenship Director - Africa, Johnson & Johnson
Chairman and Academic Head of the Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand
Associate Professor, Department of Opthalmology at Avicenna Tajik State Medical University
Programs Administration Manager, Africa Mercy, Mercy Ships
Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Medical Capacity Building Director, Mercy Ships
Chair, G4 Alliance Professor in Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Faculty, Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change Attending Surgeon, Boston Children's Hospital
Associate Partner, Safe Surgery 2020
Professor of Surgery, Center for Global Surgery at the University of Utah
Senior Consultant, Safe Surgery 2020
Director, Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Surgery and Public Health
Executive Director, Persian American Society of Health Advancement (PASHA)
Chief Executive Officer, Gradian Health Systems
Chief Medical Officer, Medical Devices Research and Development, Johnson & Johnson
Physician, Ministry of Health, Zambia
Director of Clinical Care, Diagnostic Medicine, Ministry of Health, Zambia
Counselor - Health, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Zambia to the UN
Co-Director, Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH)
Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellow, Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change
Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellow, Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change
Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellow, Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change
Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellow, Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change
Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Associate, Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change
Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Associate, Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change
General Surgeon, Fogo Island Hospital
Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
Director of Medical Services, Indus Hospital
President, Philippine College of Surgeons
Advisor to the Minister of Health and Social Protection of Population, Ministry of Health, Tajikistan
Director of Education & Quality, Health Education England
Chief Program Strategist, Operation Smile