The GSF’s Women’s Health team shared updates from projects aimed at improving access to surgical care for breast cancer patients in Rwanda and Türkiye.

SURGhub has achieved a major milestone in making surgical training accessible everywhere.

Supported by SURGfund, this is the first course of its kind in the East African region.

SURGhub won the prestigious 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) Awards. This recognition underscores SURGhub's significant impact on improving surgical care in low-resource settings.

As the first of our new series “Voices in Global Surgery”, this article takes a look behind the scenes of surgical care.

We spoke with survivors from seven countries to learn how their expertise can inform global cancer control programming.

The Global Surgery Foundation and Leapfrog to Value have entered into a strategic partnership to enhance access to care and strengthen health systems, focusing on Breast Cancer and Maternal Health.

SURGhub has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2024 Times Higher Education Awards. This recognition underscores SURGhub's significant impact on improving surgical care in low-resource settings.

The Global Surgery Foundation and Voice of the Patient have announced a strategic partnership through a memorandum of understanding. This collaboration focuses on enhancing access to care and prioritizing patient voices.

We are launching a project aiming to improve obstetric care for 10,000 births per year in Nepal's Koshi Province.

The project team successfully completed the inclusion period and launched a pilot study in April, which implements a collaborative treatment model involving traditional bonesetters and hospital referrals for surgical treatment when necessary, ensuring adequate pain relief and X-ray diagnostics for all fracture patients

In 2023, GSF significantly expanded its global footprint, reaching several important milestones in priority areas, resulting in a record-breaking year for growth & frontline impact.

The value-based healthcare (VBHC) programme in Türkiye shared their preliminary results with the scientific community, generating evidence to support the VBHC approach.

The GSF side-event at WHA77 convened a diverse array of global health leaders, representing UN member states, United Nations bodies, philanthropy, academia, civil society, and industry. The event report is now available.

In an effort to address the global crisis in access to safe and affordable surgical care, the United Nations Global Surgery Learning Hub (SURGhub) was launched in June 2023.

2.2 million more surgical care clinicians are needed to provide access to safe surgical care for all. Read our new research article on “E-learning Supporting Surgical Training in Low-Resource Settings.”

The Global Surgery Foundation, in collaboration with UNITAR and partners in Türkiye, conducted a visit to assess the progress of their Value-based Healthcare (VBHC) Programme focused on optimising breast cancer care.

The Building Bridges for Broken Bones project team is getting ready to launch their pilot in Tanzania.

SURGhub is proud to offer surgical training in Spanish.

The success and impact of SURGhub at the WACS 64th Annual Conference underscores the platform's significance as a transformative tool in surgical education and training.

No woman should die for lack of surgical care.