The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery (EBRS), signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) and the Nepal Ministry of Health and Population will organize a high-level government workshop on National Surgical Obstetrical and Anaesthesia Planning (NSOAP) in Kathmandu on 11-12 March 2020.

Watch a short video of GSF CEO and Founder Dr. Geoff Ibbotson on the benefits of building surgical capacity, recorded during the 2020 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos.

Following the successful launch of the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) at the World Economic Annual Meeting in Davos, the organization was featured in a live interview session by UN Web TV’s SDG Media Zone.

The Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) was officially launched at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2020 in Davos, Switzerland.

The official launch of the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) will take place at the upcoming World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2020 in Davos, Switzerland.

The Global Surgery Foundation has received strong support from Global Leaders in Health and Development.

The concept for the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) was recently presented at a Briefing for Permanent Missions to the United Nations Office in Geneva.

UNITAR and the Center for Global Surgery (CGS), McGill University Health Care (MUHC), signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU was signed within the context of the activities of the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) that is being hosted by UNITAR.

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Canadian Network for International Surgery (CNIS) signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU was signed within the context of the activities of the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) being hosted by UNITAR.

UNITAR, in partnership with the WHO, the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF), and the United Nations International Computing center developed an App that is intended to provide surgical teams with an electronic format of the checklist, to render the use of the checklist easier in all surgical settings.

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.

On the occasion of the first World Patient Safety Day, UNITAR, in partnership with the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF), Harvard Medical School’s Programme in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC), lifebox, and Ariadne Labs, launched a video to raise awareness on the WHO Safe Surgical Checklist.

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and Harvard Medical School's Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC) signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), committing to bringing surgical, obstetrical and anaesthesia care into the mainstream discussions of global health and offering innovative capacity-building tools to support the development of improved surgical care systems globally.

Watch Lancet Editor in Chief Dr. Richard Horton's personal address at the 72nd World Health Assembly on May 20, 2019.

The WHO, UNITAR and the Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change are developing a new platform to help build capacity in Global Surgery. This article was published originally in the official United Nations Magazine in Geneva.