In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Dr. Benjamin Anderson, WHO Medical Officer leading the Global Breast Cancer Initiative (GBCI), joined France 24 to share insight into breast cancer awareness, prevention, early diagnosis and detection, and effective treatment.

We are pleased to share the below call for proposals by Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

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

The GSF Annual Report 2020 is now available for download.

The American College of Surgeons published a Post-COVID-19 Readiness Checklist for Resuming Surgery.

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.

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.

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 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.