The Lancet Oncology Commission on Global Cancer Surgery recently published their findings. They clearly show that we are not meeting the immense demand for cancer surgery, globally.

Publication: Capacity-building for Gynaecologic Cancers in LMICs

The Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) and the Turkish Ministry of Health, Marmara University School of Medicine and Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University School of Medicine have entered into a strategic partnership for implementation of the Value-based healthcare (VBHC) programme.

The Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) recently published its bi-annual report for 2021-22. Download the report now to read about our team, highlighted activities, organisational growth, and expanding partnerships.

We are pleased to announce that the Global Surgery Foundation and the AO Alliance have entered into a strategic partnership, signing a memorandum of understanding.

We recommend this publication on a Financing Strategy to Expand Surgical Health Care by Desmond T. Jumbam, Che L. Reddy, John G. Meara, Emmanuel M. Makasa and Rifat Atun.

The GSF applauded the launch of the Malaysian Global Surgery Initiative (GSI), a Public-Private Partnership initiative for corporate social responsibility aims to provide access to safe and affordable surgical and anaesthesia care in underserved areas of Malaysia.

Financial toxicity (FT) is the negative impact of cost of care on financial well-being. Patients with breast cancer are at risk for incurring high out-of-pocket costs given the long-term need for multidisciplinary care and expensive treatments.

We are pleased to announce that the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) and the Shirati Foundation have entered into a financial partnership for the implementation of the project “Building Bridges for Broken Bones: Providing adequate treatment for extremity fracture patients in rural Tanzania”.

The Global Surgery Foundation is partnering with GHA - German Health Alliance - and calls for German industry to join in closing the biggest gap in global health.

The Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) is very pleased to announce that Smile Train has joined the Global Surgery Foundation as an Organisational Founding Partner to support the development of The GSF over the coming years.

We are pleased to announce that The Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) and the International Gynecologic Cancer Society (IGCS) have entered into a strategic partnership.

We are proud to present the report Towards a Strategy for Improving Surgical Healthcare Worldwide.

The Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) and BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH) are pleased to announce a joint memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will seek to build surgical capacity.

The Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) and CURE International are pleased to announce a joint memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will seek to improve access to surgical care and local surgical capacity around the world.

The Global Surgery Foundation joins the movement around the one-year anniversary of the launch of the WHO Global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer. We will “glow in teal” on 17 November and have prepared a small social media toolkit for anyone to use.

Access to surgery can keep treatable conditions, such as a common fracture, from becoming lifelong disabilities. An article by members of the GSF, published in Think Global Health.

This article by Joshua Korn and Natalie Meyers was published by The Hill.

The GSF Annual Report 2020 is now available for download.

UNITAR and GSF are partnering with G4 Alliance to support the development of improved surgical care systems globally.