Success in global surgery interventions cannot be claimed until consistent long-term follow
up is achieved and corresponding outcomes are studied. However, post-operative outcomes …

In response to increasing evidence that surgical conditions are an important global public
health problem, and data suggesting that essential surgical services can be delivered in a …

Progress on surgical system strengthening has been slow due to a disconnect between
evidence generation and the information required for effective policymaking. This systematic …

Background An estimated two billion people worldwide lack adequate access to surgical
care. To address this humanitarian emergency, an increasing number of international …

Global surgery as an essential component of global health. Global surgery is the study and
practice of improving access to timely, quality, and affordable surgical care. It emphasizes …

People who have been working to assure surgical care to everyone in the world (including
that majority of the world's people who live in poverty in low-and middleincome countries …

Abstract Background The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) published its
seminal report in 2015, carving a niche for global surgery academia. Six years after the …

Background Surgery has had low priority in global health planning, so the delivery of
surgical care in low-and middle-income countries is often poorly resourced. A recent Lancet …

We welcome the five published responses1-5 to our editorial, 6 which outlined a research
agenda for making surgery accessible in low-and middle-income country settings, where it is …

Global surgery is an emerging academic discipline that is developing in tandem with
numerous policy and advocacy initiatives. In this regard, academic global surgery will be …