UCSF Global Health Sciences Hosts Discussion Featuring DCP3 Contributors

                       

 

University of California, San Francisco's Global Health Sciences hosted a one-day event titled "The Science of Global Health: What's Next?" on October 2, 2014 at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center. Event participants learned about what's next in global health from a full line-up of speakers, many of whom are DCP3 contributors. DCP3 Essential Surgery lead editor Haile Debas shared the stage with renowned humanitarian Paul Farmer, to discuss surgery needs in low- and middle-income countries.  Dr. Farmer is authoring the foreward for the forthcoming DCP3 volume on Essential Surgery. 

Insider conversation: Essential Surgery

According to the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery, more than 2 billion people worldwide lack access even to basic surgical care. Lack of access to surgery can create permanent incapacities, with an estimated 11-15% of disability in the world due to surgically treatable conditions. Panelists discussed what is currently being done to make essential surgical services available to the world's poorest populations.

• Moderator: Gavin Yamey, DCP3 Communications Technical Advisory Group Member
• Panelist: Haile Debas, Essential Surgery volume editor
• Panelist: Paul Farmer, Essential Surgery volume foreward author

 

Other DCP3 Participation

Several DCP3 editors, authors and advisory committee members joined the event as speakers and panelists:

• Stefano Bertozzi, AIDS, STIs, TB and Malaria volume editor
• Zulfiqar Bhutta, RMNCH and Child & Adolescent Development volume author
• Agnes Binagwaho, Advisory Committee member
• Colin Boyle, Essential Surgery volume author
• Julio Frenk, Disease Control Priorities volume author
• Roger Glass, Advisory Committee member
• Joy Lawn, RMNCH volume author
• Ramanan Laxminarayan, DCP3 series editor
• Jaime Sepulveda, Advisory Committee member

 

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