Hey #MedTwitter, It's #GlobalSurgeryDay & excited to share @harvardpgssc 🇧🇷 latest paper 🚨 #BirthDefects need complex surgeries & can be life-threatening without proper care💉🩺 #SDOH impact outcomes, but many gaps remain🌎 At #WHA77 let's⬇️inequities &⬆️#Health4All‼️

📍#WHA77 Let’s #WALKTHETALK

Accompaniment and partnership 🤝. Partnership and leadership🏆. All together, taking us through a journey of evolution in #GlobalSurgery as a community, inspired by those before and with us! Together to #HealthForAll at #WHA77 #GlobalSurgery

Alfredo Borrero Vega sharing his leadership and insights from pioneering the #NationalSurgicalPlan in Ecuador 🇪🇨 A true champion of #GlobalSurgery in #LATAM, helping drive us towards #HealthForAll #WHA77 #UHC2030

Success comes from integration within the health system ➡️surgical systems strengthening is key. 🔗Being connected by region, sector and specialty is critical for achieving #HealthForAll and #UHC2030 🤝#WHA77

From baseline analysis ➡️ #NSOAP ➡️ implementation, ongoing diverse stakeholder engagement lets us make #GlobalSurgery a reality! Ecuador is proud to be the first #LATAM country to launch a #NSP🇪🇨. The work continues with PAHO/WHO for #implementation #HealthForAll #WHA77

Geoff Ibbotson 🇨🇦🇨🇭, ED of The Global Surgery Foundation, shares insights on the value, methods and potential of successful and sustainable partnerships. Who is involved? Who isn’t? How do we grow our network for #IMPACT? #WHA77 #HealthForAll

A wonderful evening with the International College of Surgeons!!! Great seeing friends, colleagues and collaborators 🙌🏾 HarvardGlobalSurgery UCT Global Surgery #WHA77

Constantly inspired and grateful for Women leadership in #GlobalSurgery and anesthesia care! 🇳🇬 🇿🇦 🇿🇦 🇳🇬 #WHA77 #HealthForAll #WomenInSurgery Kate Obayagbona Salome Maswime Bisola Onajin-Obembe

Day 2- with former Ecuador VP Alfredo Borrero Vega advocating for access to care for congenital anomalies for #UHC2030! Advocacy for #CongenitalAnomalies is a labor of love. We should remain inspired by mothers and clinicians & come together for #HealthForAll #WHA77 PAHO/WHO

Organizations like GICS help lead the the way towards creating evidence, community and action to help fill this gap 🫶🏼💪🏼

Incredible panel at The Global Surgery Foundation side event today!#WHA77 #Globalpartnerships 🤝 Collaborate more but make it happen in the countries 🌟No woman or child should die of preventable causes 🌿 We need breakthroughs in healthcare for every woman, everywhere #GlobalSurgery #UHC

Data Saves Lives 📊 Dr. Teri Reynolds World Health Organization (WHO) discussed the importance of having data to ensure quality care for patients 🌎💉 Feasible data registries are an essential component to strengthen #healthcare systems‼️ #WHA77

Proud to have worked with and learnt from the incredible team at NIHR Global Surgery through the Wits University #Hub. Changing practice and building capacity across the surgical ecosystem 🌎🌍🌏 #WHA77 #GlobalSurg #HealthForAll

In addition to the economics of #UHC, we should consider if #HealthForAll is the goal, what does it mean for the economy, for finance, for innovation? It means growth. It means equity. It means fairness HarvardGlobalSurgery World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus #HealthSystemResiliance #NCDs

Here are all the publications from our 2024 #WHA77 surgery side-event: globalsurgeryunit.org/wha-side-event…

🔔Today @ the Foreign Policy side event #WHA77 Andrew Sollinger : Are we in a permanent crisis right now? Atul Gawande : “Yes!” “Pace of outbreaks are increasing & Just like our immune system the health systems have learnt and should do better” #UHC #Health4All

Now: Panel discussion around addressing the divide between frontliners, NGOs, private sector and public sector champions🌐 People who have feet in more than one camp- it is incumbent on us to bridge the divide Robert Riviello Mark Shrime, MD PhD Mercy Ships Operation Smile #WHA77

The 2024 South African Women in Science Awards (SAWiSA) are honouring one of the children of the Mpumalanga soil and one of Africa's finest exports, the legendary, Dr Esther Mahlangu, and here she receives a guard of honour as she enters the room #SAWiSA2024 #DSI #Itspossible