Dr. Geoff Ibbotson (Geoff Ibbotson 🇨🇦🇨🇭) of The Global Surgery Foundation opens the #WHA76 #GlobalSurgery event on sustainable financing! Join us online: globalsurgeryfoundation.org/events/wha2023

“We know that 7 - 8 million children are born each year with a birth defect. These are often children who don’t have access to surgery.” Dr. Anshu Banerjee Anshu Banerjee of World Health Organization (WHO) speaks to the need for #SafeSurgery as part of integrated health services. #WHA76 The Global Surgery Foundation

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

Fantastic panel ready to discuss solutions to the #globalsurgery question. #WHA76 The Global Surgery Foundation Atul Gawande USAID @JNJGlobalHealth

The The Global Surgery Foundation #WHA76 jumps straight to business. “The #SURGfund is going to mobilize new funds to expand live-saving surgical care systems in LMICs.”

At the The Global Surgery Foundation #WHA76 #GlobalSurgery event, Atul Gawande USAID Global Health shares a story of #success : a 19 y/o woman in Malawi 🇲🇼recognized the danger signs of pregnancy, came to the hospital on time and she was able to be evaluated and induced without needing a C-section.

At the #WHA76 The Global Surgery Foundation #globalsurgery event, @JNJGlobalHealth is the face of the private sector! We are so excited to get all the tips on how to effectively engage this sector and create strategic partnerships!

We know #SOTACareForAll is a cost-effective initiative, but how do we prove that? How do we convince governments, the private sector and international organizations to invest in it? We measure it and we show the #data. #WHA76 Atul Gawande USAID USAID Global Health

How does @JNJGlobalHealth measure #impact of their #globalsurgery projects? For pilots (current stage that they are at), it is all about the process metrics. #WHA76 The Global Surgery Foundation

How do we sell #globalsurgery projects? From a policy maker perspective, we must pair our efforts for surgical system strengthening with the promise that this is not mutually exclusive from health prevention initiatives! Surgery is just another piece of the puzzle 🧩. #WHA76

1+1=3. Rifat Atun from The Global Surgery Foundation talks about synergies and being creative when it comes to #globalsurgery funding. #WHA76 USAID USAID Global Health

The private sector has not only provided funding, but also value and expertise to #globalhealth initiatives such as HIV, TB, etc. #GlobalSurgery should not be any different, it cannot be any different! @JNJGlobalHealth #WHA76 The Global Surgery Foundation

Time for the #hotseat 🔥. What do private sector investors need from the #globalsurgery community? - Accountability - Returns - Capacity building for local communities - 95-5% rule: stop spending most of the time on complications!!!!!!!! #WHA76

Thank you Dr. Peter A Singer, OC for noting the need to do more on #SurgicalCare World Health Organization (WHO)! We are ready to help in anyway!!! Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus #WHA76 #SurgeryUHC EMakasa Walt Johnson 💧Liz McLeod 💛 HarvardGlobalSurgery RACSurgeons John G Meara 🇲🇹🇦🇺🇺🇸 The G4 Alliance Wits-SADC RCC for Surgical Healthcare Kids Operating Room InciSioN

💪We are 1️⃣ hour to go from our first #GlobalSurgeryDay Twitter Hour! 👥Together with #TheFutureOfTheOR - InciSioN we will share questions about the #LCoGS Indicators #HalfwayTo2030 ! 🤝We invite all advocates to discuss! Join #AAGS to advocate for #GlobalSurgery today.

Important article from ⁦Harvard Global Surgery⁩ on #WHA76 resolution on Emergency | Critical | Operative care calling for integrative implementation that will require ⁦NEW positions for Surgery Obstetrics Anesthesia ⁦World Health Organization (WHO)⁩ higher in the organization! thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Great news! Thank you Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for your support. Now let’s all move forward together with ECO incorporating surgery, obstetrics and anesthesia care into HSS including emergency and critical care!!! #WHA76 World Health Organization (WHO) #GlobalSurgery Harvard Global Surgery

And the most perfect icing on the cake was paying my respects to the Doyen of Global Surgery Professor Meara and presenting after him in the 1st ever session in Global Surgery at BAUS Birmingham 2023 meeting

"Taking context into consideration when determining disability weights may significantly impact priority setting for global health programmes in low-income and middle-income countries." Manon Pigeolet Harvard Global Surgery John G Meara 🇲🇹🇦🇺🇺🇸 📣 New Analysis ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/8/6/e0…

📢We are very happy to announce that #SURGhub - the United Nations Global Surgery Learning Hub - is going live tomorrow. This is a great example of partnership between UNITAR, The Global Surgery Foundation, and RCSI Institute of Global Surgery. Stay tuned and check it out tomorrow!