Partnerships

In collaboration with WHO and other stakeholders, our goal is to improve childhood cancer survival up to 60% by 2030.  We propose doing this by scaling up workforce capacity and standardization of childhood cancer surgical care.  We are currently working with...

Naomi Wright, member of the GICS Core Operations and Logistics team, leads the Global PaedSurg research project, which is a multi-centre research collaboration of surgeons, anaesthetists and allied health professionals caring for neonates and children requiring...

Children in Somaliland suffer a significant burden of health conditions — particularly congenital deformities and wound-related conditions — that could be bettered by surgery, but most of these needs are being unmet, according to a study co-led by Baylor University...

Kids Operating Room, or KidsOR, is a global health charity focused entirely on capacity building of surgical services for children. They work with surgeons, hospitals and ministries of health in low- and middle- income countries to create high-quality Operating Rooms...

GICS has been collaborating with the Surgery for People project in Nicaragua - a joint Ministry of Health and Operation Smile project whose mission is to bring surgical services closer to rural communities in Nicaragua. GICS performed a baseline assessment in July...

Professor Kokila Lakhoo, Mr. Richard Stewart (paediatric surgeons) and Mr. Philip Henman (orthopedic surgeon) representing the Royal College of Surgeons in England are partnering with Dr. Vrisha Madhuri along with the departments of general surgery, anaesthetics, and...