Expanding the global dialogue regarding gender equity in urology

Affiliations

¹ Division of Urology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Department of Health Policy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
³ Urology Unit, Department of Surgery, Hôpital Militaire de Kamenge, Bujumbura, Burundi.
⁴ Department of Urology, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Winston Salem, NC, USA.
⁵ Department of Urology, University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City, IA, USA.
⁶ Centro Urológico Foscal, Clínica Foscal-Foscal Internacional, Floridablanca, Colombia.
⁷ Division of Urology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

Hannah S Thomas et al. BJU Int. 2026 Jan.

. 2026 Jan;137(1):12-14.

doi: 10.1111/bju.70072. Epub 2025 Nov 7.

¹ Division of Urology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Department of Health Policy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
³ Urology Unit, Department of Surgery, Hôpital Militaire de Kamenge, Bujumbura, Burundi.
⁴ Department of Urology, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Winston Salem, NC, USA.
⁵ Department of Urology, University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City, IA, USA.
⁶ Centro Urológico Foscal, Clínica Foscal-Foscal Internacional, Floridablanca, Colombia.
⁷ Division of Urology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

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