Summary of the Eighth World Health Organization Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care Biennial Meeting

Christopher Strader; Abhishek Swarup; Megan Thuy Vu; Rachel Koch; Haitham Shoman; Jacob Lepard; Walter Johnson; Kee B. Park

doi:10.3390/proceedings2020043005

Proceedings (Apr 2020)

Summary of the Eighth World Health Organization Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care Biennial Meeting

Christopher Strader,
Abhishek Swarup,
Megan Thuy Vu,
Rachel Koch,
Haitham Shoman,
Jacob Lepard,
Walter Johnson,
Kee B. Park

Affiliations

Christopher Strader: Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Abhishek Swarup: Department of Surgery, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Tufts University, Brighton, MA 02135, USA
Megan Thuy Vu: Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Rachel Koch: Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Haitham Shoman: Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Jacob Lepard: Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Walter Johnson: Emergency & Essential Surgical Care Programme, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Kee B. Park: Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2020043005
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 43, no. 1
p. 5

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A summary of the eighth World Health Organization (WHO) Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (GIEESC) Biennial Meeting, which was held in conjunction with the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (RACS) eighty-eighth Annual Scientific Congress in Bangkok, Thailand.

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ISSN: 2504-3900 (Online)
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Country of publisher: Switzerland
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