Dr. Theophilus Teddy and Miss Naomi Wright at the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery (GICS) III Meeting (Vellore, India, Jan 2018) "It was an amazing experience being a collaborator for PaedSurg Africa last year. As a doctor, I learnt a lot in the process. Contrary to what I had imagined prior, it was remarkably easy
Have a growing interest in the far-reaching impacts of global surgery? Join us at the 2018 InciSioN Global Surgery Symposium in Leuven, Belgium on the 5-6th May! This exciting gathering will see a varied and global audience of specialists, residents and students, aiming to introduce the concepts of global surgery, its recent developments and future
While congenital birth defects have risen to become one of the top five causes of death in children under 5, perhaps the greatest injustice lies in the shocking statistic that 97% of those deaths occur in low- and middle-income regions. However, global collaborative research offers us the opportunity to change that, by studying the vast
As the world continues to grow smaller, global surgery is becoming more important than ever before. However, for many, it is difficult to know where to start. For Miss Naomi Wright (Principal Investigator of Global PaedSurg), her journey as a global paediatric surgeon began when she was just a teenager. Through her voluntary work raising money for
As World Birth Defects Day comes upon us on this 3rd March, we reflect on the burden of disease posed by congenital anomalies throughout the globe. Birth defects have risen to become the fifth leading cause of death in children under 5 years of age, with an estimated two-thirds of the burden being amenable to
