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Sebastian Hofbauer 7/28/26 Sebastian Hofbauer 7/28/26

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

Sebastian Hofbauer 5/15/25 Sebastian Hofbauer 5/15/25

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

Sebastian Hofbauer 4/11/25 Sebastian Hofbauer 4/11/25

United Nations Global Surgery Learning Hub (SURGhub): Innovating Surgical Workforce Education in the 22 Arab Countries

An abstract on how SURGhub supports surgical workforce education across the 22 Arab countries, presented at the Arab Conference at Harvard.

Arab Conference at Harvard (abstract) · April 2025

Education & Training SURGhub

Sebastian Hofbauer 12/1/23 Sebastian Hofbauer 12/1/23

GSF Annual Report 2023

Covers GSF's team, programmes, partnerships and results in 2023.

Global Surgery Foundation · December 2023

Sebastian Hofbauer 6/25/23 Sebastian Hofbauer 6/25/23

Strategic Planning to Improve Surgical, Obstetric, Anaesthesia, and Trauma Care in the Asia-Pacific Region

Reports on a 2021 virtual meeting series in which ministries of health, funders and partners shared lessons on national surgical planning in the Asia-Pacific, covering financing, COVID-19, climate change and remote training.

BMC Proceedings · June 2023

Policy & Planning

Sebastian Hofbauer 10/1/22 Sebastian Hofbauer 10/1/22

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

Sebastian Hofbauer 3/17/21 Sebastian Hofbauer 3/17/21

Strategic Planning to Improve Surgical, Obstetric, Anaesthesia, and Trauma Care in the Asia Pacific Region: Conference Programme

Programme and speaker biographies for the regional conference on planning surgical, obstetric, anaesthesia and trauma care in the Asia-Pacific.

NSOAP Asia Pacific regional conference · March 2021

Policy & Planning

Sebastian Hofbauer 12/1/20 Sebastian Hofbauer 12/1/20

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