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
New Partnership With Royal College Canada International
UNITAR and GSF are partnering with RCI for developing and offering innovative capacity-building tools to support the development of improved post-graduate medical education and surgical care systems globally.
New Partnership with the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa
UNITAR and GSF are partnering with COSECSA for the goal of offering innovative capacity-building tools to support the development of improved surgical care systems globally.
Webinar: Global Anaesthesia Priorities in the COVID-19 Era, 15 September 2020
UNITAR and the Global Surgery Foundation is is excited to announce a virtual roundtable, in collaboration with Smile Train and WFSA on Global Anesthesia Priorities in the COVID-19 Era.
New Partnership with the University of Witwatersrand and its WITS Health Consortium
UNITAR and GSF are partnering with University of Witwatersrand’s Wits Health Consortium to pursue the mission of sustainability in global surgery and ensuring safe surgical care.
Collaboration with Stellenbosch University
UNITAR and GSF are partnering with Stellenbosch University, acting through its Centre for Global Surgery (CGS), to ensure equitable access to quality surgical care for all.
New Partnership between UNITAR & Operation Smile
UNITAR and GSF are partnering with Operation Smile on providing safe surgical care to those born with cleft lip, cleft palate, and other facial deformities.
Watch: Leading Health Systems Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
UNITAR and the Global Surgery Foundation co-hosted this webinar with the University of Capetown, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Operation Smile, and the Nepal Medical Council.
New Partnership between the Global Initiative For Children’s Surgery & UNITAR
UNITAR and GSF are partnering with the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery (GICS) to ensure safe surgical care for every child across the globe, all realms of surgical care.
Watch: Restarting Non-Emergency Surgery in LMICs
UNITAR and the Global Surgery Foundation co-hosted this webinar with Operation Smile and Stellenbosch University.
Collaboration between KidsOR & UNITAR on Building Capacity for Pediatric Surgery
UNITAR and GSF are partnering with KidsOR on giving children access to safe surgery in regions where needed most.
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.
WFSA and UNITAR to cooperate on Capacity Building
GSF, UNITAR, and The World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists (WFSA) to Cooperate on Capacity Building.
New Partnership between the University of Global Health Equity & UNITAR
GSF, UNITAR and Harvard Medical School’s Program in Global Surgery and Social Change to Cooperate on Capacity Building.
New Partnership between Smile Train & UNITAR
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and Smile Train (EBRS), signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
New Partnership between Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery and UNITAR
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery (EBRS), signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
New Partnership between the Center for Global Surgery of McGill University & UNITAR
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.
New Partnership between the Canadian Network for International Surgery & 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.
New Partnership between Harvard Medical School & UNITAR
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.