GlobalSurg & The NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery
Improving surgical outcomes through collaborative research
Making surgery safer for patients all around the world
Priority Setting
Setting the research agenda
GlobalSurg & The NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery are working together through annual research prioritisation workshops to set the research agenda based on patient need in LMIC.
Information Gathering
Cohort & Feasibility Studies
GlobalSurg conduct international cohort studies, generating crucial background data for feasibility studies and trials carried out in NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery LMIC hub countries.
Evidence Generation
Evidence to improve surgical outcomes
The NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery is conducting international randomised controlled trials in selected low and middle income partner hub countries. GlobalSurg studies are open to any hospitals, any where.
Sustainability
Building Sustainable Research for the Future
Developing trans-continental randomised controlled trials and national guidelines to build sustainable research capacity and implement change in surgical practice in LMICs.
Training
Fostering the surgical leaders of tomorrow
The NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery is supporting fully funded Fellowships for surgeons in LMIC as well as providing open access training resources to support surgical researchers all around the world.
“Delivering safe and effective surgical care across the world is one of the greatest challenges facing global health today”.
Professor Dion Morton, Co-Director, NIHR GSU
“Over 5 billion people around the world lack access to safe affordable surgical care”
The NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery (GSU): conducting local research within a global network:
6 NIHR GSU research hubs in LMIC
1 NIHR GSU Centre recently opened in Benin
3 continents
40 spoke hospitals
Ensuring all patients have the opportunity to take part in our research.
Bringing together surgeons, researchers and policy makers to set the local research agenda according to patient need in LMIC.
Rwanda is a small country in East Africa where access to surgery is still challenging. The Global Surgery Unit has helped me to interact with other surgeons from around the world. Now, all my patients are benefiting from the same standard of care they would receive elsewhere.”
Dr JC Allen Ingabire, Kigali Teaching Hospital, Rwanda Hub
Our Projects
Our research projects will identify and implement changes to surgical practice, making surgery safer for patients all around the world.
GlobalSurg & CovidSurg: data-driven research studies open to any hospital, anywhere in the world.
Providing information on thousands of patients in more than 100 countries.
Fully funded Fellowships and training packages for surgical trainees in LMIC: fostering the surgical researchers of the future and building sustainable research capacity.
Working closely with communities in LMIC to ensure our research projects are accessible to, and benefit, all patients.
Policy recommendations based on health economic analyses embedded in all our studies.
The NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery & GlobalSurg studies are studies are supported by:
