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
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Watch: The Official Launch of Pakistan's National Surgical Plan
Join hands with us in our mission to ensure that all Pakistanis have access to safe, timely, and affordable emergency and essential surgical, obstetric, and anesthesia care services so that they may live healthy and productive lives.
Watch: Our 2020 Global Surgery Webinars
The Global Surgery Foundation hosted a number of well-received events in 2020. Learn more and re-watch all of them here.
Asia-Pacific Region: Strategic Planning to Improve Surgical, Obstetric, Anaesthesia and Trauma Care
Following the launch of the NSOAP Manual and the NSOAP Educational Series, the Global Surgery Foundation is pleased to collaborate on a three-part series on the NSOAP process in the Asia-Pacific region.
Watch: Special Educational Online Series on the NSOAP Manual and Process
The National Surgical, Obstetric and Anaesthesia Planning (NSOAP) Manual is being published as a collaborative initiative between the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, and the Global Surgery Foundation. It will be officially launched on 28 September 2020 as part of a special Online Educational Series with the generous support of Johnson & Johnson.
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: The Official Launch of the New NSOAP Manual
The new NSOAP Manual was officially launched on 28 September 2020 as part of a special Online Educational Series in partnership with UNITAR, Harvard PGSSC, and with the generous support of Johnson & Johnson.
Watch: Global Anaesthesia Priorities in the COVID-19 Era
UNITAR and the Global Surgery Foundation co-hosted this webinar with Smile Train and the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA).
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.
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.
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.
New Video - Running From Crisis to Crisis
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.
New Surgical Safety Checklist App
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.
Surgical Safety Checklist Awareness Video
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.