OUR LABS

The Global Reproductive Surgery Lab aims to improving the quality of care around obstetric surgery, in particular cesarean delivery. The focus of the lab is implementation of  innovative strategies to improve reproductive health outcomes in resource-limited settings. The collaborative work of the lab with Uganda and Ghana is embedded in quality improvement using implementation science methods. 

 

 

The lab aims to address the social determinants of health as they relate to people who have experienced traumatic injuries. The main focus of the lab is to understand how trauma is experienced differently by the most vulnerable so that we can design studies and advocate for ways to improve this experience. 

 

Specific Areas: 

1- Simulation based models for surgical education

2- Social vulnerbaility and trauma systems.

The lab has a variety of projects with the goal of improving access to high quality surgical care in rural district hospitals. Some of the specific areas of research of the lab include Health services research, cesarean delivery, data science, digital health, health information systems, equity in collaborations. 

 

Specific areas:

1- Advancing global access to surgery through education, knowledge and equity. 

2- Achievement of research equity through assessment of research efforts across PGSSC

The lab aims to strengthen surgical delivery through education, quality improvement, and capacity development in Rwanda and the U.S. 

 

Specific areas: 

1- Investment in non-technical skills for surgery;

2- Center for Equity in Global Surgery (CEGS) at UGHE that addresses inequities in SAO care through fellowship, research and innovation, education and training, policy, advocacy and financing, and global convening.

The lab aims to focused on a variety of aspects of improving the delivery of anesthesia and perioperative care to vulnerable populations throughout LMICs. The lab also focuses on improving crisis of global anesthtic workforce across the world. 

 

Specific areas: 

1- Improving quality of anesthtic care 

2- Increasing access to spinal anesthesia trainings across LMICs

The lab aims to understand racial disparities in global surgery through research and education initiatives. 

 

Specific areas: 

Trauma Systems 

Civilian-Military Engagement 

Health Equity.

The lab aims to assess  Global pediatric surgery, trauma care, and gender equity as borad topics in Brazilian SAO specialties. 

 

Specific Areas: 

• Brazilian Surgical, Anesthesia and Obstetric care access

• Gender disparities in surgery in Brazil.

The lab aims to address systems to reduce inequalities in access to health care, with a particular focus on diseases amenable to surgery aimed at identifying geographical and socioeconomic health inequalities at a regional, national and subnational level.

 

Specific areas: 

1- Improve access to timely, effective surgical care with a specific focus on access for marginalized and vulnerable populations

2- Building research capacity and partnerships in global surgery.

The lab aims to identify and explore solutions to global blood deserts, which are a major barrier to implementing surgical systems. The lab also focuses on tracking the progress of global surgical care through multilateral collaborations. 

 

Specific areas: 

1- Defining global surgery after the Lancet Commission

2- Innovation strategies for blood delivery across trauma systems.

The global neurosurgery lab aims to improve access to safe, affordable and timely neurosurgical care. The lab works with partners and collaborators from all across the globe. 

 

Main focuses of the lab: 

1- Barriers to access to neurosurgical care

2- Neurosurgery training in LMICs

The SAP lab aims to improve health outcomes by highlighting the needs and challenges that affect marginalized patient populations while seeking, receiving, and administering surgical care. 

 

Main focuses of the lab: 

1. Prevention and treatment of poverty as it relates to healthcare, 

2. Advocating for equitable care distribution.

The lab aims to address barriers to surgical care inequities through development of policies and partnerships. The lab is heavily engaged with National Surgical Obstetrics and Anesthesia Plan (NSOAP) process of many SADC countries and provides technical support in the development and implementation of NSOAPs as invited by the partners.

 

Specific areas: 

1-Assessment of surgical care services delivery in LMICs 

2- Examining barriers to NSOAP development in SADC.

The lab aims to understand the financial burden that surgical disease has on patients worldwide through assessing the complex interactions between health, equity, and impoverishment; in determining what works and what doesn’t in global surgery. 

 

Specific areas: 

1 - Global assessment of the cost of surgical care.

2 - Evaluating the interplay of nonprofit and academic institutions 

The lab aims to solve technical problems at scale through responsible innovation and Investemnt in Global Surgery and more boradely to healthcare.  

 

Specific Areas: 

1- Innovative Funding to help address the global health and surgical challenges that exist through supporting, mentoring and accompany local innovators;

2- Increasing the presence of head and neck surgeons in discussing and contributing to health systems strengthening.