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

“This emergency I attended to in a sub-optimal setting will perpetuate the cycle of poverty” Always so inspiring and real to hear from Dr. Asturias, an incredible surgeon, advocate and overall human being!!!

"One thing women have in common is that they are clever." We are honoured to have Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on the The Global Surgery Foundation board. Harvard Global Surgery UNITAR Smile Train #WHA76

Blood is a critical component of a strong health system but so often forgotten!!! Safe surgical and health care requires reliable access to transfusions🩸🩸🩸

Kee Park Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus World Health Organization (WHO) And if they used some of that money to address the health-related impacts of climate change then there would be benefits for these countries' defence sectors in terms of disrupting the climate-conflict nexus. Win win!

Amazing #WHA76 roundtable: Role of Health Community in #climate action John Kerry: This is a battle. I have never seen people so willing to wrap their arms around ignorance+arrogance. The climate crisis is killing people. We can win this battle. It is hard but we can change this

Delegate from Lebanon #WHA76 regarding need for stable, reliable health systems “Until when will we remain resilient ?! When can we count on a reliable health care system?” 💪🏾 #UHC #HealthSystems Harvard Global Surgery

That’s my chief!!!!!!

A pleasure to share this piece ahead of the discussions at the #WHA76. It is time for scaling up our efforts for emergency preparedness and response to protect the most vulnerable. #HealthForAll World Health Organization (WHO) Shreenik Kundu Ayla Gerk Manon Pigeolet Rohini Dutta Nakul Raykar

"Sustainability should be a mountaintop .. It is tough, distant, and daunting, but it is attainable." Prof. Abebe Bekele, MD University of Global Health Equity discusses how #GlobalHealth should move from vertical (inefficient) silos to #sustainability & #HealthSystems approaches, including #MedEd. #BRT2023

“We must consider #healthequity as an overarching principle in all policies… & #socialdeterminants of health must be a mandatory consideration in all decision making processes.” - Hamaiyal Sana IFMSA at #WHA76 #youth4health

It’s time for the surgical community to take more climate-conscious action, starting with increased accountability and tracking of carbon emissions 🌱🌎🌲 Read more about E-liability accounting in surgical care in our piece for BMJ Global Health

What a pleasure to hear stories Somerville Theatre, curated by The Moth and featuring our own Tanko🇨🇲🇬🇭 !! Advocacy is, after all, storytelling and empathy. Grateful to bear witness to the 5 stories told last night.

“There is something about surgery—its close entanglement with the fabric of the human body perhaps—that has made it a focus of intense debate...” A look at The Lancet as an archive of surgical history: hubs.li/Q024BQm80

Such a pleasure hearing Barnabas Alayande speak about identifying opportunities to improve surgical education at medical schools in Nigeria 🇳🇬 University of Global Health Equity #ACSCC23

As #ACSCC23 American College of Surgeons comes to an end, I feel honored to have shared this experience with the best friends and mentors 🤩🥳! Can’t wait for another Harvard Global Surgery family reunion, you truly are the most supportive bunch! #surgery #MedTwitter #MedX

Necessity begets innovation!! Thrilled to share this important work demonstrating how we can apply new (and old) strategies to improve critical access to blood worldwide - a multidisciplinary, international labor of love 🩸🩸🩸 Nakul Raykar

TW: suicide There is an empty corner desk in a resident workroom at GW. Now forever engraved in my mind, that desk is a harrowing reminder of the cost of medical training. In his final words, Dr. William West said that he was simply out of gas, that he had nothing left to give.

Happy #Matchday2024! We are proud to introduce the newest members of the BIDMC family. We can’t wait for you to join us in June! #MatchDay #medtwitter #SurgTwitter #GenSurgMatch2024

With projections indicating that gender parity in surgery may not be achieved until 2136, we must act now to bridge the widening gender gap! 👩🏻‍⚕️👩🏼‍⚕️👩🏽‍⚕️👩🏾‍⚕️👩🏿‍⚕️ 🌍 We present to you concrete recommendations by women from diverse backgrounds and in different stages of their career: