Global Convenings
January 31, 2025 2025-01-31 18:25Global Convenings
Global Convenings
Organizes global convenings to unite experts across Africa in addressing key issues in global surgery. A key initiative is the Pan-African Surgical Healthcare Forum (PASHeF), launched in July 2023. This forum brought together stakeholders, including policymakers and clinicians, to tackle challenges in accessing safe, affordable, timely, and quality surgical care in Africa. The event provided a platform for sharing experiences, best practices and innovations to advance surgical healthcare across the continent. This led to a 50-point consensus statement focused on key areas such as country commitment, leadership, financing, stakeholder mobilization, monitoring and evaluation, and partnership in national surgical healthcare planning. The upcoming PASHeF in September will focus on endorsing a Governance Framework and Roadmap for continued progress in surgical healthcare across the continent.
Expected Impact
- By 2027, we will have 75 graduates from the MGHD global surgery track, and 336 students enrolled in the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery program.
- Each medical graduate will be able to perform ~250 surgeries per year, adding up to 112,500 surgeries within 5 years of the first class graduating.
- Medical education quality will be improved, surgical skills strengthened, and the number of surgeons and fellows will increase. Therefore, access to safe, affordable high quality surgical care will increase
- A robust peer-reviewed research base will be built to guide safe surgical practice, well-designed health care systems, and effective public policy
- Dismantling barriers to surgical care through inclusivity- Addressing discriminatory academic, financial, and socio-cultural barriers facing women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and those of low socioeconomic status
- Promoting a multidisciplinary, trans-sectoral approach to surgical training- Not only traditional Surgery, Anesthesia, and Obstetrics specialists, but also non-physician surgical providers, including perioperative nurses, midwives, biomechanical engineers, and support staff.
- Championing the Co-location of both virtual and in-person regional training hubs- Regionalization and co-location of multidisciplinary training institutions and subspecialty programs in shared centres, enriched through partnerships.
