Voices beyond the Operating Room: centring global surgery advocacy at the grassroots

• Bisola Onajin-Obembe,
• Kee B Park,
• Lubna Samad,
• Kathryn Chu,
• Nobhojit Roy,
• Ruben Ayala,
• Desmond T Jumbam,
• Abebe Bekele,
• Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye,
• Salome Maswime,
• Barnabas Alayande,
• Emmanuel Mwenda Malabo Makasa

Affiliations

Bisola Onajin-Obembe

Department of Anaesthesiology, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Kee B Park

Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Lubna Samad

Department of Pediatric Surgery, Indus Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Kathryn Chu

Centre for Global Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Nobhojit Roy

Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Ruben Ayala

Department of Policy and Advocacy, Operation Smile, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA

Desmond T Jumbam

Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana

Abebe Bekele

Health System and Reproductive Health Research Directorate, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye

Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Salome Maswime

Global Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Barnabas Alayande

Center for Equity in Global Surgery, University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Gasabo, Rwanda

Emmanuel Mwenda Malabo Makasa

SADC Regional Collaboration, Centre for Surgical Healthcare, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa