Publications
Research, reports and articles by the Global Surgery Foundation and our partners. Select a title to open the publication.
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GSF Annual Report 2025
Covers GSF's work in 2025, including growth in funding for surgical care and in training that builds local leadership.
Global Surgery Foundation · July 2026
GSF Annual Report 2024
Covers GSF's work in 2024, a year of growth in expanding access to safe, timely and affordable surgical care.
Global Surgery Foundation · May 2025
The Power of Professional Societies: Advancing Safe Surgery for Mothers in Nepal
How Dr Saroja Pande and the Nepal Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists are working to make surgery safer for mothers in Nepal.
Voices in Global Surgery series · May 2025
United by Unique: Stories of Resilience, Drawbacks, and Progress
Patients, frontline workers and advocates in women's cancers share stories of resilience, setbacks and progress.
Voices in Global Surgery series · February 2025
Uncovering the Lived Experience of Cancer Surgery
The first article in our Voices in Global Surgery series, in which cancer survivors from seven countries share their experience of surgical care.
Voices in Global Surgery series · November 2024
GSF Annual Report 2023
Covers GSF's team, programmes, partnerships and results in 2023.
Global Surgery Foundation · December 2023
GSF Bi-annual Report 2021–22
Covers GSF's team, highlighted activities, organisational growth and expanding partnerships in 2021 and 2022.
Global Surgery Foundation · October 2022
Investing in Surgery, Closing a Global Health Gap
Billions of people lack access to basic surgical care. The authors argue that sustained funding, drawing on lessons from PEPFAR, the Global Fund and Gavi, is needed to build surgical systems in low- and middle-income countries.
Think Global Health · October 2021
GSF Annual Report 2020
GSF's first annual report, covering its launch in January 2020, how activities adapted to COVID-19 and the outlook for 2021.
Global Surgery Foundation · December 2020
Surgery for All: Social Justice for All
An article in the United Nations Special magazine on building capacity in global surgery, opening with a patient's story from the Himalayan foothills.
UN Special magazine · May 2019