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

Desmond T Jumbam^{1

2}, Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye², Barnabas Alayande^{3

4}, Abebe Bekele^{3

5

6}, Salome Maswime⁷, Emmanuel Mwenda Malabo Makasa^{8

9}, Kee B Park⁴, Ruben Ayala², Bisola Onajin-Obembe¹⁰, Lubna Samad¹¹, Nobhojit Roy¹², Kathryn Chu^{13

14}

Affiliations

¹ Operation Smile Ghana, Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana desmond.jumbam@gmail.com.
² Department of Policy and Advocacy, Operation Smile, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.
³ Center for Equity in Global Surgery, University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Gasabo, Rwanda.
⁴ Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Rwanda.
⁶ Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁷ Global Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
⁸ SADC Regional Collaboration, Centre for Surgical Healthcare, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁹ University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia.
¹⁰ Department of Anaesthesiology, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
¹¹ Interactive Research and Development, Karachi, Pakistan.
¹² World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Research in Surgical Care Delivery in Low-and-Middle Income Countries, Mumbai, India.
¹³ Centre for Global Surgery, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
¹⁴ Department of Surgery, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.

Editorial

Desmond T Jumbam et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2022 Mar.

. 2022 Mar;7(3):e008969.

doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008969.

¹ Operation Smile Ghana, Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana desmond.jumbam@gmail.com.
² Department of Policy and Advocacy, Operation Smile, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.
³ Center for Equity in Global Surgery, University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Gasabo, Rwanda.
⁴ Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Rwanda.
⁶ Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁷ Global Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
⁸ SADC Regional Collaboration, Centre for Surgical Healthcare, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁹ University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia.
¹⁰ Department of Anaesthesiology, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
¹¹ Interactive Research and Development, Karachi, Pakistan.
¹² World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Research in Surgical Care Delivery in Low-and-Middle Income Countries, Mumbai, India.
¹³ Centre for Global Surgery, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
¹⁴ Department of Surgery, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.

No abstract available

Keywords: Health education and promotion; Health policy; Obstetrics; Surgery.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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