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Reading list 

Global Surgery reading list - in the Oxford University library

Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation in The Lancet Article - by Dean T Jamison; Lawrence H Summers; George Alleyne; Kenneth J Arrow; Seth Berkley; Agnes Binagwaho; Flavia Bustreo; David Evans; Richard G A Feachem; Julio Frenk; Gargee Ghosh; Sue J Goldie; Yan Guo; Sanjeev Gupta; Richard Horton; Margaret E Kruk; Adel Mahmoud; Lianh K Moholo; Mthuli Ncube; Ariel Pablos-Mendez; K Srinath Reddy; Helen Saxenian; Agnes Soucat; Karen H Ulltveit-Moe; Gavin Yamey - 12/2013 – Recommended

Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 in The Lancet Article - by Christopher J L Murray; Theo Vos; Rafael Lozano; Mohsen Naghavi; Abraham D Flaxman; Catherine Michaud; Majid Ezzati; Kenji Shibuya; Joshua A Salomon; Safa Abdalla; Victor Aboyans; Jerry Abraham; Liana Ackerman; Rakesh Aggarwal; Stephanie Y Ahn; Mohammed K Ali; Mohammad A AlMazroa; Miriam Alvarado; H Ross Anderson; Laurie M Anderson; Kathryn G Andrews; Charles Atkinson; Larry M Baddour; Adil N Bahalim; Suzanne Barker-Collo; Lope H Barrero; David H Bartels; Maria-Gloria Basanez; Amanda Baxter; Michelle L Bell; Emelia J Benjamin; Derrick Bennett; Eduardo Bernabe; Kay Blah; Bihal Bhandari; Boris Bikbov; Aref Bin Abdulhak; Gretchen Birbeck; James A Black; Hannah Blencowe; Jed D Blore; Fiona Blyth; Ian Bolliger; Audrey Bonaventure; Soufiane Boufous; Rupert Bourne; Michel Boussinesq; Tasanee Braithwaite; Carol Brayne; Lisa Bridgett - 12/2012 – Recommended

Session 2: Equipping the surgical workforce in an age of rapid communication

Technologies for global health in The Lancet Article - by Peter Howitt; Ara Darzi; Guang-Zhong Yang; Hutan Ashrafian; Rifat Atun; James Barlow; Alex Blakemore; Anthony MJ Bull; Josip Car; Lesong Conteh; Graham S Cooke; Nathan Ford; Simon AJ Gregson; Karen Kerr; Dominic King; Myutan Kulendran; Robert A Malkin; Azeem Majeed; Stephen Malth; Robert Merrifield; Hugh A Penfold; Steven D Reid; Peter C Smith; Molly M Stevens; Michael R Templeton; Charles Vincent; Elizabeth Wilson - 08/2012 – Essential

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Tablet e-Logbooks in Anesthesia & Analgesia Article - by Shristi Shah; Oliver Ross; Stephen Pickering; Stephen Knoble; Indra Rai - 10/2017 – Essential

Not If, but How? Using Technology and Task-Sharing to Strengthen the Global Anesthesia Workforce in Anesthesia & Analgesia Article - by Elizabeth T. Drum; M. Dylan Bould - 10/2017 – Recommended

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Frugal innovation in medicine for low resource settings in BMC Medicine Article - by Viet-Thi Tran; Philippe Ravaud - 12/2016 – Recommended

mHealth Compendium Database Webpage – Recommended

Enhancing emergency care in low-income countries using mobile technology-based training tools: Table 1 in Archives of Disease in Childhood Article - by Hilary Edgcombe; Chris Paton; Mike English - 12/2016 – Recommended

Improving documentation of clinical care within a clinical information network: an essential initial step in efforts to understand and improve care in Kenyan hospitals in BMJ Global Health Article - by Timothy Tuti; Michael Bitok; Lucas Malla; Chris Paton; Naomi Muinga; David Gathara; Susan Gachau; George Mbevi; Wycliffe Nyachiro; Morris Ogero; Thomas Julius; Grace Irimu; Mike English - 06/2016 – Recommended

Session 3: Journey to safe surgery: challenges to effective delivery of surgical, anesthesia and obstetrics care

Systematic Review of Barriers to Surgical Care in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries in World Journal of Surgery Article - by Caris E. Grimes; Kendra G. Bowman; Christopher M. Dodgion; Christopher B. D. Lavy - 2011-5 – Essential

Barriers to Surgical Care in Nepal Article - by JAF van Loenhout et al - Essential

The Lancet Series on Maternal Health September 2016 Webpage – Essential

Too far to walk: Maternal mortality in context in Social Science & Medicine Article - by Sereen Thaddeus; Deborah Maine - 1994-4 – Essential

Surgical and anaesthetic capacity of hospitals in Malawi: key insights in Health Policy and Planning Article - by Jaymie Ang Henry; Erica Frenkel; Eric Borgstein; Nyengo Mkandawire; Cyril Goddia - 10/2015 – Recommended

Prioritizing Surgical Care on National Health Agendas: A Qualitative Case Study of Papua New Guinea, Uganda, and Sierra Leone in PLOS Medicine Article - by Anna J. Dare; Katherine C. Lee; Josh Bleicher; Alex E. Elobu; Thaim B. Kamara; Osborne Liko; Samuel Luboga; Akule Danlop; Gabriel Kune; Lars Hagander; Andrew J. M. Leather; Gavin Yamey - 2016-5-17 – Recommended

Four million neonatal deaths: counting and attribution of cause of death in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology Article - by Joy E. Lawn; David Osrin; Alma Adler; Simon Cousens - 09/2008 – Recommended

Harnessing medical student power in global surgery research in Pediatric Surgery International Article - by Roshni C. Mansfield; Louis C. S. Gardner; Georgina O. A. Ndukwe; Henry de Berker; Kathryn Ford; Kokila Lakhoo - 2018-6 – Recommended

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Optimal Resources for Children’s Surgical Care: Executive Summary in World Journal of Surgery Article - 15/04/2019 – Recommended

Unifying Children’s Surgery and Anesthesia Stakeholders Across Institutions and Clinical Disciplines: Challenges and Solutions from Uganda in World Journal of Surgery Article - by Phyllis Kisa; David F. Grabski; Doruk Ozgediz; Margaret Ajiko; Raffaele Aspide; Robert Baird; Gillian Barker; Doreen Birabwa-Male; Geoffrey Blair; Brian Cameron; Maija Cheung; Bruno Cilgiarno; David Cunningham; Sergio D’Agostino; Damian Duffy; Faye Evans; Tamara N. Fitzgerald; George Galiwango; Domenico Gerolmini; Nasser Kakembo; Joyce B. Kambugy; Kokila Lakhoo; Monica Langer; Moses Fisha Muhumuza; Arlene Muzira; Andrew J. M. Leather; Robert Nakku; John Nakku; Juliet Nansubuga; Martin Situma; Peter Ssennyonjo; Janat Tumukunde; Gustavo Villalona - 2019-6 – Recommended

Surgical decision making around paediatric preoperative anemia in low-income and middle-income countries in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Article - by Somy Charuvila; Sarah E Davidson; Jecko Thachil; Kokila Lakhoo - 11/2019 – Recommended

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Emergency Transportation Interventions for Reducing Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review (PDF)

Halimatou Alaofe, Breanne Lott, Linda Kimaru*, Babasola Okusanya, Abidemi Okechukwu, Joy Chebet, Martin Meremikwu† and John Ehiri

The significant association between maternity waiting homes utilization and perinatal mortality in Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis (PDF)

Bayu Begashaw Bekele, Tegene Legese Dadi and Thomas Tesfaye

Maternity Waiting Home Interventions as a Strategy for Improving Birth Outcomes: A Scoping Review and Meta-Analysis (PDF)

Samantha Smith, Suresh Tamang, Hannah Henrikson, Rum Rajbhandari and Rita Thapa

Traditional Birth Attendants and Birth Outcomes in Low-Middle Income Countries: A Review (PDF)

Ana Garces, Elizabeth M McClure, Leopoldo Espinoza, Sarah Saleem, Lester Figueroa, Sherri Bucher and Robert L Goldenberg

Session 4: Research driving change; the opportunities and the questions to ask

Building Research Capacity in Africa: Equity and Global Health Collaborations in PLOS Medicine Article - by Kathryn M. Chu; Sudha Jayaraman; Patrick Kyamanywa; Georges Ntakiyiruta - 2014-3-11 – Essential

11 Principles & 7 Questions | Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries Webpage – Recommended

Ethical review of health research: a perspective from developing country researchers in Journal of Medical Ethics Article - 2014-2 – Recommended

Developing the Anesthesia Workforce in Anesthesia & Analgesia Article - by Eric Vreede; Fred Bulamba; Edson Chikumba - 11/2019 – Recommended

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Session 6: Ethics and Advocacy

General Considerations:

Global Surgery Pro-Con Debate: A Pathway to Bilateral Academic Success or the Bold New Face of Colonialism? in Journal of Surgical Research Article - by Alyssa Scheiner; Jennifer L. Rickard; Benedict Nwomeh; Randeep S. Jawa; Enrique Ginzburg; Tamara N. Fitzgerald; Anthony Charles; Abebe Bekele - 08/2020 – Recommended

What Makes Clinical Research in Developing Countries Ethical? The Benchmarks of Ethical Research in The Journal of Infectious Diseases Article - by Ezekiel J. Emanuel; David Wendler; Jack Killen; Christine Grady ​​