We meet on the first Tuesday of each month at Homan's Library in Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.  The Forum is sponsored by the Center of Surgery and Public Health.  We discuss current literature on surgery and global health and present related research topics.  All are welcome!

May 4, 2010        We will discuss the paper by Mock et al  on the trauma care capabilities in four low and middle income countries

June 1, 2010       Robert Riviello, MD, MPH will present related cases and discuss his year of work as a surgeon in Angola

July 6, 2010        Tom Weiser, MD, MPH will discuss his modeling strategy to estimate the global volume of surgery, recently publioshed in the Lancet

August 3, 2010   Kendra G Bowman, MD, PhD presents Funding global surgery research: Failures, successes and advice

Sept 2, 2010        Luke Funk, MD, MPH presents his recent publication

October 5, 2010   Cancelled due to ACS meeting

Nov 7, 2010         Lisa Knowlton, MD presents a summary of the recent symposium at Harvard The Role of Surgery in Global Health

Dec 7, 2010         Robert Riviello MD, MPH discusses the topic Human Resource and Funding Constraints for Essential Surgery in District Hospitals in Africa in the context of his experiences in Kenya, Angola and Rwanda

January 4, 2011 Chris Hughes, MD, MPH will discuss his research in Haiti on the needs for surgical care post earthquake and the surgical capacity of hospitals 

February 1, 2011 We will discuss articles on volunteer surgical care in developing countries and Team Heart, a volunteer organization providing cardiac surgery in Rwanda, will discuss their experiences.

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