Background: Building surgical capacity through global surgery partnerships (GSPs) between
high and low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) is a rising global health focus. Our aim …

Background An estimated two billion people worldwide lack adequate access to surgical
care. To address this humanitarian emergency, an increasing number of international …

Abstract Introduction In December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the urgent
need for rapid collaboration, research, and interventions. International research …

Introduction An unmet burden of surgical disease exists worldwide and is disproportionately
shouldered by low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). As the field of global …

Global surgery as an essential component of global health. Global surgery is the study and
practice of improving access to timely, quality, and affordable surgical care. It emphasizes …

Success in global surgery interventions cannot be claimed until consistent long-term follow
up is achieved and corresponding outcomes are studied. However, post-operative outcomes …

Objective This study was designed to propose a classification scheme for platforms of
surgical delivery in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) and to review the literature …

Background There is a dire need for more surgical services as part of improving global
health. Conditions treatable with surgery account for 11% of the global burden of disease …

Abstract Background The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) published its
seminal report in 2015, carving a niche for global surgery academia. Six years after the …

We welcome the five published responses1-5 to our editorial, 6 which outlined a research
agenda for making surgery accessible in low-and middle-income country settings, where it is …