News and events
Stay up to date on our activities and the latest news in global surgery.
News type: Programme updates · Stories · Partnerships · Publications · Organisation
Event type: High-level events · Webinars · External events
Project: Kano (Nigeria) · Nakuru (Kenya) · Koshi (Nepal) · Bonesetters (Tanzania) · Breast cancer (Türkiye) · SURGhub
Photo: OSS Nakuru project
Watch: Quality Improvement Interventions to Reduce Anastomotic Leaks
EBRS, UNITAR, CAGS, and the Global Surgery Foundation hosted a special online event entitled “Quality Improvement Interventions to Reduce Anastomotic Leaks.”, on 3 December 2024 at 16:00 CET/ 10:00 AM EDT/ 07:00 AM PDT.
Watch: Preventing Surgical Site Infections
Ebrs.online, UNITAR, CAGS, and the Global Surgery Foundation hosted a special online event entitled “Routine sterile glove and instrument change at the time of abdominal wound closure to prevent surgical site infection”, on 19 April 2023 at 16:00 CET/ 10:00 AM EDT/ 07:00 AM PDT.
Watch: Safe Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy, Practices, Preparation and Prevention
Ebrs.online, UNITAR, and The Global Surgery Foundation invite you to this online event entitled “Safe laparoscopic cholecystectomy: practices, preparation, and prevention”, taking place on 7 December at 4PM CET.
Watch: Conservative Versus Interventional Treatment for Spontaneous Pneumothorax
This one hour webinar involved a review of the literature examining the the topic of conservative versus interventional treatment for spontaneous pneumothorax.
Watch: Restarting Non-Emergency Surgery in LMICs
UNITAR and the Global Surgery Foundation co-hosted this webinar with Operation Smile and Stellenbosch University.
Watch: COVID-19 and Oxygenation Support, Is There Any Solution for Low-Resource Hospitals?
UNITAR and the Global Surgery Foundation co-hosted this one hour webinar with HUG and 2nd chance.
Webinar: COVID-19 and Anti-thrombotic Treatment, 29 May 2020
The Global Surgery Foundation is is excited to announce the next installation of Operation Smile’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Webinars: "COVID-19 and Anti-thrombotic Treatment."
Roundtable on Safe Surgery
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations International Computing Center (UNICC) and the Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC) partnered to organize a roundtable discussion on the occasion of the first official World Patient Safety Day on September 17th 2019.