The passing of Dr Paul Farmer has shaken us deeply. It was because of Paul that we have a Program in Global Surgery and Social Change. He was our greatest advocate and friend, and we will continue to keep alive his legacy of hope, dignity, and health care access for all.
We are proud of Dr. Riviello, (
@robertriviello
) Deputy director of
@HarvardPGSSC
, Associate Surgeon at
@BrighamWomens
and a wonderful husband & father for being awarded as the The Steven C. and Carmella R. Kletjian Foundation Distinguished Chair in Global Surgery!
@BrighamSurgery
Congratulations to our Research Associates graduating from
@HarvardPGSSC
! Thank you for your commitment to social justice, global surgery, obstetrics and anesthesia. We will miss you, wish you the best and are excited too see all the wonderful work you will continue to do.
Join us in wishing Professor Paul Farmer a happy birthday. Dr Farmer has helped to significantly increase access to health care for the poorest communities of the world.
Happy 60th birthday Paul Farmer!
Congratulations to our fellows graduating from the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Fellowship
@HarvardPGSSC
Thank you for your commitment to social justice and for your leadership to increase access to safe and affordable surgery, obstetric and anesthesia care for all 🌍 !
🚨An open letter to the Executive Board
@WHO
“…Given the clear value surgical teams and infrastructure have added to the pandemic response,it is surprising that surgical system strengthening has not received more attention as part of pandemic preparedness initiatives thus far..”
Happy
#GlobalSurgeryDay2021
! To celebrate, we want to announce the opening of our applications for our next cohort of Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellows and Research Associates! Apply today and email pgsscboston
@gmail
.com with questions!
One week left to apply to be a Paul Farmer
#ResearchFellow
#ResearchCollaborator
For more information check out the link in our bio, and feel free to reach out with any questions!
Only 4% of global health conferences are hosted in low-income countries? This implies that attendees from LMICs face more barriers than their HICs counterparts. Share your experience in this survey and contribute to
#ConfEquity2023
!
In
#Haiti
, only 4 neurosurgeons have to cover a population of 10.6 million people. As a result, hydrocephalus, commonly affecting children and in need of surgical care, remains largely untreated.
#GlobalNeurosurgery
#GlobalSurgery
A big thank you to each and every of our 5,000 followers.
#5billion
people remain without access to
#SafeSurgery
and
#Anaesthesia
care when needed, resulting in over 17 million preventable deaths each year.
#GlobalSurgery
Only together, hand-in-hand, can we make a difference.
An invested educator and powerhouse researcher,
@DrBarnabasAlay
received the AAS Global Surgery Research Award at
#ACS2023
this year, which helped support the creation of a program for Non-technical skills development for surgeons in Nigeria!!
Candidates can apply to Research
#Fellow
or Research Collaborator (Visiting Graduate Student) with
@harvardpgssc
! Trainees and medical students from across the globe are encouraged to apply.
For more information check out 📚
📣 Day 4️⃣ of Surgical Simulation Week at
@ughe_org
is here! Today, the
#MedStudents
practiced wound debridement, abscess incision & drainage, & cyst excision on our simulation models 🧽. They absolutely killed it ⚡️🙌🏽.
#globalsurgery
#MedTwitter
#MedEd
One week left to apply to be a Paul Farmer
#ResearchFellow
#ResearchCollaborator
For more information check out the link below, and feel free to reach out with any questions!
Announcing our Global Surgery Research Seminar Series. A great opportunity to learn more about the field and interact with those leading the path.
The first session on September 9th will focus on "Perception of Global Surgery ".
Register here:
Another historical moment: Rwanda is launching its National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Plan (
#NSOAP
), committing to expanding access to surgical and anesthesia care to all of Rwanda.
#GlobalSurgery
New
#globalsurgery
publication!
Essential components of surgical care delivery: an updated Surgical Assessment Tool. The
@WHO
tool provides valuable information related to surgery at the local, national, and international health system level.
Only 39% of global health conference attendees were from LMICs. Did you recently attempt to or were able to attend a conference? Help us make conference equity a reality by filling out this survey:
#ConfEquity2023
#Globalhealth
#Medtwitter
Join the PGSSC next Thursday at 8am EST/1200 GMT for a compelling panel-webinar on Innovative Financing for Universal Healthcare: The Role of Impact Investment!
More info and registration here:
#GlobalSurgery
#UHC
#impactinvesting
We are thankful to have reached the cap of 6,000 followers, highlighting the size and drive of the
#GlobalSurgery
community.
Five billion people worldwide remain without access to safe surgical and anaesthesia care when needed - YOU are helping us make a difference.
We will be opening applications soon!
Candidates can apply for the Research
#Fellow
or Research Collaborator position with
@harvardpgssc
! Trainees and medical students from across the globe are encouraged to apply!
#globalsurgery
For more info check:
Two weeks to apply to be a Paul Farmer
#GlobalSurgery
Research Fellow or Associate! Medical students and trainees globally are encouraged to apply! Feel free to reach out to our current and past fellows and RAs with questions!
Please find our official PGSSC Anti-Racism Statement on our website. In creating this statement we revisited our strategic plan and implemented an anti-racism curriculum in order to ensure our program spoke this truth before posting it publicly.
Applications for the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship at the PGSSC are now open! To view position descriptions, applications, and further information on the PGSSC, visit
Dr. Sabrina Asturias:
🔥LMIC frontliners are experts in deciding who lives & who doesn’t not because of an ethics course but due to the limited resources we have
🔥Patients surpass resources which limits our ability to give optimal care
🚨🚨🚨 New publication alert! Improving surgical quality in low- and middle-income countries: Why do some health facilities perform better than others? by
@pritha88
& Dr. Shehnaz Alidina.
Read here:
#GlobalSurgery
#UHC
Don't miss this amazing line-up of panelists and speakers at Session 1 of our Asia-Pacific Surgical Planning meetings in partnership with
@UNITAR
@surgfoundation
@RACSurgeons
and the Harvard Center for Global Health Delivery!
Register here:
Day 3️⃣ of
@ughe_org
Surgical Sim Week was
#Trauma
day 🚑!
💡 Trauma care is the classic high-acuity event for which simulation training can greatly reduce ☠️ in real life settings.
#MedStudents
learned ABCDE management of life-threatening injuries!
#globalsurgery
#MedTwitter
👉🏼 OUR ANNUAL REPORT IS OUT !!
We managed to do a lot despite COVID..
“ The virtual era of COVID redefined how we conduct our work and collaborate with our partners from a distance” - Dr John Meara.
Access the full report here :
Our team is feeling greatly inspired by the efforts taken in combination with the
@Vice_Ec
and
@Salud_Ec
to improve the quality of surgical care in
#Ecuador
We thank
@ABorreroVega
, the Vice President of Ecuador, and his team for their presence and championship in
#GlobalSurgery
Are you interested in applying for the Research Associate position? Join us this Friday at 11am EST for a Q/A session with our current Research Associates!
Zoom link:
Dr.
@paimadhu
calls out inequity in current Global Health Conferences. Thank you for being a true
#ally
to the
#ConfEquity2023
initiative.
@PLOSGPH
Help us make conference equity a reality by filling out this survey:
Please join the
@theG4Alliance
Latin America and Caribbean Working Group for a "First Tuesday" presentation next week by Dr.
@MyronRolle
, founder of the CARICOM Neurosurgical Initiative and current PGSSC Fellow!
Register here:
The Program in Global Surgery and Social Change is proud to stand alongside
@ughe_org
as they launch their Center for Equity in Global Surgery, to become a catalyst for change in surgical care delivery across the world.
#CEGS
#EquityInSurgery
#GlobalSurgery
“Healthcare delivery and equity are not divine creations. The outcome we see now are human design. When we change the human design, we hope to achieve a new equitable outcome.” Prof
@JohnMeara
Kletjian Professor of Global Surgery
#GlobalSurgery
#CEGS
#EquityInSurgery
🌏Dr. Kee Park - Director of Policy and Advocacy at
@HarvardPGSSC
@keepark
brings his experience as a neurosurgeon and
#GlobalSurgery
advocate to
#WHS2023
. Join us as he co-chairs our panel of experts who will discuss sustainable financing solutions for equitable surgical care.
The PGSSC Research Seminar will kick off this year on 8 September, 2022 at 9am to 1030am EST. We would like to warmly invite you all to attend.
Our theme for this seminar is "Multi-site Randomized Trials in Global Surgery" featuring Dr Han-Kwang Yang and Dr Adesoji Ademuyiwa.
Scaling up surgery in
#LMICs
will cost $350 billion over 15 years; However, the economic benefit could be around $12.3 trillion ‼️
Surgical care must be seen as an investment, not a cost! 💲📈🩺🌎
#GlobalSurgery
#Cirug
íaGlobalLatam
#GlobalSurgeryLatam
📍Escalar la cirugía en países de ingresos bajos y medianos costará $350 mil millones durante 15 años; sin embargo, el beneficio económico podría ser del orden de $12.3 trillones.
¡La atención quirúrgica ⚕️ debe ser vista como una inversión 📈 y no como un costo!
#Cirug
íaGlobal
The PGSSC met with
@DrSenait
who reiterated her support for
#SurgeryUHC
. Thank you for your continuous support! Without partnership, support and collaboration, we cannot advance further.
#UNGA74
"
#Canada
went from major trauma mortality of 50% in 1993 to below 5% today due to regional trauma plans, showing the potential and need for regional plans." - Dr Tarek Razek on the work by WACS to develop their Regional Surgical, Obstetric, Anesthesia, and Nursing Plan.
#WACS2019
Our team is gearing up for
#WHA76
beginning in Geneva this weekend ✈️ 🇨🇭 We hope to meet and connect with you! Come and say hi if you want to know more about the work we do at PGSSC and all things
#globalsurgery
🌍
📣 We are excited to announce our upcoming panel discussion on “Private-Public Partnerships for Equitable Surgical Care Delivery” at the 2023 World Health Summit in Berlin. Join us in person or virtually at
#WHS2023
#UHC2030
#HealthForAll
#GlobalSurgery
🚨Our paper, “Improving surgical quality in low-income and middle-income countries: why do some health facilities perform better than others?” has been selected as one of 2021’s Top 10 papers by the British Medical Journal Quality and Safety.
🎉Calling all former PGSSC folks🎉
Join us for a
#reunion
!
📆 Tuesday, Oct 18th, 2022
📍San Diego, CA
If you are a former student or fellow and plan on attending, please contact pgsscboston
@gmail
.com
We look forward to seeing everyone in-person 🎊
Join us for a webinar as we explore experiences, barriers and facilitators to attending conferences within
#globalhealth
🗓️ June 1st 2023
⏰ 2:30-3pm GMT / 10:30-11am ET
🔆Register: 🔆
Career Panel has begun! PGSSC faculty sharing their global health journey with the new team and inspiring the next generation of global health leaders and advocates!
#GlobalSurgery
#globalhealth
#PGSSC
past, present and former at the
#WHA76
@surgfoundation
💪🏼🔥 Our team put up an incredible side event focussed on moving from commitment to implementation and hiding leaders accountable. Watch out for some super cool interviews with
#globalsurgery
leaders 😉⚡️