Programmes

Direct and sustained impact where it matters most

Women’s health

Addressing neglected women’s health needs represents one of the best investments in global health and can have a lasting impact on families and communities.

The GSF Women’s Health Programme prioritises the following areas to address women’s surgical needs and to catalyse meaningful and sustained impact: Maternal Health, Cervical Cancer, and Breast Cancer.

Women’s Health Programme

Catalising meaningful impact for women

Value-based Healthcare for Breast Cancer in Rwanda and Türkiye

By strengthening surgical care systems, we are improving treatment for breast cancer patients

C-Safe project in Tanzania in India

Ensuring Safe and Appropriate Caesarean Sections

Saving Lives of Mothers and Newborns in Nepal: Optimising Safe Surgical Care” (Nepal OSSC)

Improving obstetric care for 10,000 births per year in Nepal

Injury & trauma surgery

Responding to the world’s biggest epidemic. In most countries, traumatic injury is the leading cause of death and disability for people under the age of 45. Seven million people die each year as a result of injury and trauma, with many more being left disabled.

The GSF partners with governments to assist the scale up of emergency trauma surgical services through comprehensive and integrated planning.

Trauma Team Training in Kenya

Decreasing injury morbidity and mortality in Kenya through training of trainers

Plasma-derived Therapies

We are strengthening countries’ healthcare systems to meet patients’ need for plasma and plasma-derived therapies

Building Bridges for Broken Bones

A project supported by SURGfund to provide adequate treatment for extremity fracture patients in rural Tanzania

Education & research

Development of the existing and future surgical care workforce is a key component – perhaps the key component – in the provision of safe surgical care worldwide.

Thorugh the United Nations Global Surgery Learning Hub (SURGhub), we offer a leading platform for high-quality surgical training in low- and middle-income countries.

SURGhub - the UN Global Surgery Learning Hub

Award-winning platform training the surgical workforce to save lives

Harvard High-value Surgical Systems executive course

The highest rated course in Harvard T. H. Chan’s executive education

Champions in Global Surgery Programme

We are investing in the next generation of surgical leaders

Executive Leadership in Global Surgery

A collaboration with University of Cape Town to empower leaders in global surgery

Policy development

The GSF offers a common platform to assist countries in the development of their national surgical plans (NSOAPs) and surgical care policies, which can then be fully integrated into their National Health Strategy.

We collaborate with multiple stakeholders to further develop the NSOAP process, including governments, the World Health Organization, leading academic institutions; funding agencies; industry; foundations, philanthropy, and NGOs.

The NSOAP Manual

We provide a comprehensive planning methodology for Ministries of Health and Finance

NSOAP Educational Series

Our series has all you need to know about the national surgical planning process

National Surgical Planning Assistance

We work directly with several governments on the development and implementation of national surgical plans

Financing surgical care

Inequity in access to surgical care is one of the biggest global health gaps today.  GSF’s SURGfund is the first and only catalytic fund for surgical system strengthening in low- and middle-income countries.

SURGfund - the Catalytic Fund for Surgical Care Systems

Mobilising funding for frontline implementation

Announcement of SURGfund at WHA76

Watch the announcement of SURGfund at the largest side-event of WHA 2023

Where we work

Our programming strategy carefully considers needs and success factors and is focused on Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States (SIDS),and Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs).

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