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SU Global Surgery

@su_globalsurg

Centre for Global Surgery
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

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Members of the Centre for Global Surgery Management Committee Kathryn Chu George Oosthuizen participated in the "Essential Research Skills: A Global Surgery Perspective" course held in Dublin RCSI. 🌍🔬 #Research #GlobalSurgery #MedicalEducation

Members of the Centre for Global Surgery Management Committee <a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a> <a href="/George/">George</a> Oosthuizen participated in the "Essential Research Skills: A Global Surgery Perspective" course held in Dublin <a href="/RCSI_Irl/">RCSI</a>. 🌍🔬 #Research #GlobalSurgery #MedicalEducation
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The Centre for Global Surgery team JohnelizeLouw, Kriste Alberts, and Tamlyn Mac Quene participated in the "Essential Research Skills: A Global Surgery Perspective" course in Dublin. 🇮🇪📚 RCSI Kathryn Chu SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences #GlobalSurgery #ResearchSkills #MedicalEducation

The Centre for Global Surgery team <a href="/JohnelizeL/">JohnelizeLouw</a>, <a href="/Kriste70072820/">Kriste Alberts</a>, and Tamlyn Mac Quene participated in the "Essential Research Skills: A Global Surgery Perspective" course in Dublin. 🇮🇪📚 <a href="/RCSI_Irl/">RCSI</a> <a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a> <a href="/SUhealthsci/">SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences</a>  #GlobalSurgery #ResearchSkills #MedicalEducation
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Check out the letter of thanks 🤲 from Martin Chigwede 🩺, winner of the Gift of the Givers African Global Surgery Scholarship! Read it here: facebook.com/share/p/1EGiKC… Kathryn Chu SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Gift of the Givers #GlobalSurgery #ScholarshipWinner

Check out the letter of thanks 🤲 from Martin Chigwede 🩺, winner of the Gift of the Givers African Global Surgery Scholarship! Read it here: facebook.com/share/p/1EGiKC… <a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a> <a href="/SUhealthsci/">SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences</a> <a href="/GiftoftheGivers/">Gift of the Givers</a> #GlobalSurgery #ScholarshipWinner
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We are excited to welcome three visiting students Isabel Zhang, Marilene van den Berg and Alyssa Eckels from Northwestern University, USA, as part of our commitment to fostering collaborative learning and innovation across institutions. SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Kathryn Chu

We are excited to welcome three visiting students Isabel Zhang, Marilene van den Berg and Alyssa Eckels from Northwestern University, USA, as part of our commitment to fostering collaborative learning and innovation across institutions.
<a href="/SUhealthsci/">SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences</a> <a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a>
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Examine the contributions of clinical associates in strengthening South Africa’s healthcare system and addressing workforce shortages in primary care. 🔍Read the full article here: lnkd.in/dSC9ZvX5 Kathryn Chu SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences #Healthcare #SouthAfrica #PrimaryCare

Examine the contributions of clinical associates in strengthening South Africa’s healthcare system and addressing workforce shortages in primary care.

🔍Read the full article here: lnkd.in/dSC9ZvX5
<a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a> <a href="/SUhealthsci/">SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences</a> 
#Healthcare #SouthAfrica #PrimaryCare
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We’re thrilled to welcome two students, Emil Jonsson and Jakob Bjorklund, from the University of Gothenburg who will be working on colorectal cancer projects here at Tygerberg Hospital Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Kathryn Chu SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

We’re thrilled to welcome two students, Emil Jonsson and Jakob Bjorklund, from the University of Gothenburg who will be working on colorectal cancer projects here at Tygerberg Hospital Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
<a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a> <a href="/SUhealthsci/">SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences</a>
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📢 Bridging the gap from an academic career in surgery to global surgery A conversation between Kathryn Chu and Priyanka Naidu from American College of Surgeons Check it out: lnkd.in/dcX8YYcB SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences #GlobalSurgery #HumanitarianAid

📢 Bridging the gap from an academic career in surgery to global surgery

A conversation between <a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a>  and Priyanka Naidu from American College of Surgeons

Check it out: lnkd.in/dcX8YYcB
 <a href="/SUhealthsci/">SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences</a> 
#GlobalSurgery #HumanitarianAid
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A Belgian surgical resident's groundbreaking 12-month trauma training across Colombia & South Africa—pioneering a double south-to-north collaboration! 🎥👉 lnkd.in/dUwvvMCX Kathryn Chu SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences #GlobalSurgery #TraumaTraining #MedicalExchange

A Belgian surgical resident's groundbreaking 12-month trauma training across Colombia &amp; South Africa—pioneering a double south-to-north collaboration! 

🎥👉 lnkd.in/dUwvvMCX
<a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a> <a href="/SUhealthsci/">SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences</a> 
#GlobalSurgery #TraumaTraining #MedicalExchange
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🌍 Collaborating for better diabetes care! The Centre for Global Surgery is proud to partner with One To One Africa on a new implementation project focused on screening for diabetic foot infections in the rural Eastern Cape. Kathryn Chu SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences #ImplementationScience

🌍 Collaborating for better diabetes care! The Centre for Global Surgery is proud to partner with <a href="/OneToOneAfrica1/">One To One Africa</a> on a new implementation project focused on screening for diabetic foot infections in the rural Eastern Cape. <a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a> <a href="/SUhealthsci/">SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences</a> 
#ImplementationScience
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🚑💬 How do we make surgical care accessible for everyone? Catch Kathryn Chu on the latest BadEMPodcast Find, review and share on links below: 1. BadEM on apple podcasts: lnkd.in/d5ADEsBY 2. YouTube: lnkd.in/dHEuk6H4 SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences #GlobalSurgery

🚑💬 How do we make surgical care accessible for everyone? Catch <a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a>  on the latest BadEMPodcast

Find, review and share on links below:

1. BadEM on apple podcasts: 
lnkd.in/d5ADEsBY

2. YouTube: 
lnkd.in/dHEuk6H4

<a href="/SUhealthsci/">SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences</a>  #GlobalSurgery
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Artificial intelligence is moving fast—In the health sector, the fast adoption of AI will lead to a major shift Read the full article here 👇🏽 allafrica.com/stories/202502… Kathryn Chu SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences #SurgicalInnovation #GlobalSurgery

Artificial intelligence is moving fast—In the health sector, the fast adoption of AI will lead to a major shift 

Read the full article here 👇🏽
allafrica.com/stories/202502…
<a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a> <a href="/SUhealthsci/">SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences</a>  #SurgicalInnovation 
#GlobalSurgery
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🔬 Rethinking the “African Enigma” – Understanding H. pylori in Context Why is Helicobacter pylori so common in Africa, but rates of ulcers and stomach cancer stay low? 🦠🤔 📖 Read the full article: lnkd.in/dmpGmCaX SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Kathryn Chu

🔬 Rethinking the “African Enigma” – Understanding H. pylori in Context 
Why is Helicobacter pylori so common in Africa, but rates of ulcers and stomach cancer stay low? 🦠🤔

📖 Read the full article: lnkd.in/dmpGmCaX
<a href="/SUhealthsci/">SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences</a> <a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a>
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👩🏽‍🔬✨ STEM just got a glow-up! At the Centre for Global Surgery, we’re spotlighting our real-life superheroes as AI action figures — brilliant, coffee-fueled, laptop-wielding women changing the face of science and surgery. See Kathryn Chu Tamlyn MacQuene and Johnelize Louw

👩🏽‍🔬✨ STEM just got a glow-up!

At the Centre for Global Surgery, we’re spotlighting our real-life superheroes as AI action figures — brilliant, coffee-fueled, laptop-wielding women changing the face of science and surgery. 

See <a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a> Tamlyn MacQuene and Johnelize Louw
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👩🏽‍🔬✨ STEM just got a glow-up! This week, we're turning the spotlight on more of our incredible team members—reimagined as AI action figures. Each box is different — just like each woman in science. Unique. Driven. Impactful. Diverse. #WomenInSTEM Kathryn Chu SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

👩🏽‍🔬✨ STEM just got a glow-up! 

This week, we're turning the spotlight on more of our incredible team members—reimagined as AI action figures. Each box is different — just like each woman in science. Unique. Driven. Impactful. Diverse.
#WomenInSTEM <a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a> <a href="/SUhealthsci/">SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences</a>
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🎉 Exciting News! We are proud to announce that we’ve been awarded a new grant to lead the RURAL_SURG project: Developing community strategies to strengthen access to surgical care in rural Africa Kathryn Chu SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences #HealthEquity #SurgicalCare #RuralHealth

🎉 Exciting News!

We are proud to announce that we’ve been awarded a new grant to lead the RURAL_SURG project: Developing community strategies to strengthen access to surgical care in rural Africa

<a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a> <a href="/SUhealthsci/">SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences</a> 
#HealthEquity #SurgicalCare #RuralHealth
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Bringing unique data to tackle wicked problems — we're developing innovative health system models to strengthen equitable access to healthcare across sub-Saharan Africa. Because where you live should never determine if you live. 🌍📊💡 Kathryn Chu SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences #STIAS

Bringing unique data to tackle wicked problems — we're developing innovative health system models to strengthen equitable access to healthcare across sub-Saharan Africa. Because where you live should never determine if you live. 🌍📊💡
<a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a> <a href="/SUhealthsci/">SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences</a> #STIAS
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🌍 We’re thrilled to welcome Zoe Ferreira as our new intern at the CGS! 🎉 Zoe earned her Honours degree in Psychology from the University of the Western Cape. She is deeply committed to mental health and strives to uplift marginalized communities. Kathryn Chu SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

🌍 We’re thrilled to welcome Zoe Ferreira as our new intern at the CGS! 🎉

Zoe earned her Honours degree in Psychology from the University of the Western Cape. She is deeply committed to mental health and strives to uplift marginalized communities.

<a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a> <a href="/SUhealthsci/">SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences</a>
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Last week, the Equi-injury team brought together community members, healthcare providers, and policymakers to achieve consensus on where to prioritise interventions that would improve access to quality care after injury🚑💬 Kathryn Chu SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences #InjuryCare #HealthSystems

Last week, the Equi-injury team brought together community members, healthcare providers, and policymakers to achieve consensus on where to prioritise interventions that would improve access to quality care after injury🚑💬
<a href="/kathryn_chu_sa/">Kathryn Chu</a> <a href="/SUhealthsci/">SU, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences</a> 
#InjuryCare #HealthSystems
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🌍✈️Throwback to an unforgettable cross-continental collaboration! The Essential Research Skills: A Global Surgery Perspective course 🎥 Catch the highlights from both countries: lnkd.in/dRMfr_HS #ResearchSkills#StudentEngagement

🌍✈️Throwback to an unforgettable cross-continental collaboration! The Essential Research Skills: A Global Surgery Perspective course

🎥 Catch the highlights from both countries: lnkd.in/dRMfr_HS

#ResearchSkills#StudentEngagement