Publications
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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
Surgical Health Policy 2025–35: Strengthening Essential Services
Finds that progress towards the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery targets has been slow and uneven as unmet need has grown, and argues for treating surgery as an essential service and funding whole hospital systems.
The Lancet · July 2025
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
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
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
Becoming Big Bettable
Written for social change leaders, the article sets out five elements that make an initiative ready for a large philanthropic gift, including a concrete goal, a credible path and a clear role for philanthropy.
Stanford Social Innovation Review · April 2019