Global Neurosurgery Assimilation into the Global Surgery Movement

Authors

  • Edward I Ham Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA --- Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA
  • Olaoluwa Ezekiel Dada College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria; Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Hodan Abdi Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA --- University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
  • Vigneshwar Raj Veerappan Hull York Medical School, University of York, UK
  • Kee B. Park Harvard Global Surgery, Program of Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51437/jgns.v3i1.100

Abstract

In 2019, the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) created the Global Neurosurgery Committee (GNC). The GNC’s Global Action Plan is comprised of 5 objectives: 1) amplifying access to neurosurgical care, 2) aligning global neurosurgical activity, 3) advancing relevant research, especially from low-and-middle-income country (LMIC) authors, 4) assimilating neurosurgical capacity building into surgical systems planning and 5) advocating for (neuro)surgical care within universal health coverage. The goal to assimilate global neurosurgery (GNS) into surgical system planning is further divided into 2 specific goals for 2021: 1) Increasing participation of neurosurgeons in >50% of efforts to strengthen national surgical systems, and 2) increasing the rate of participation by neurosurgeons in major global surgery conferences by >20%. In this paper, the importance of the assimilate objectives will be reviewed, current progress towards the first Assimilate objective will be highlighted, and next steps will be discussed.

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Published

2023-04-09

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2023): Implementation of the Global Neurosurgery Action Plan

Section

Global Neurosurgery Committee 1.0