Dr. Kee Park

Member of the Technical Advisory Council

Dr. Park is a faculty member at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC) and a Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. The PGSSC’s mission is to achieve universal access to safe, affordable, and timely surgical, obstetric, and anesthesia care by strengthening surgical systems through research, policy development, and training leaders in academic global surgery.

His academic interests in global surgery involve translational research to inform policy, political economy of surgical care as a global health priority, global governance in surgical care, and bridging the research with policy and implementation. He has conducted seminal research in the unmet global need for neurosurgical care is the leading authority in the nascent field of global neurosurgery.

Dr. Park also worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization and currently serves on the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Surgical Care and Anesthesia. In this capacity, he advocates for and assists in the development of national surgical plans by the Member States. He also advises Member States in developing sustainable financing models for equitable surgical care.

Dr. Park, a diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, received his neurosurgery training at Temple University in Philadelphia, medical degree from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.

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