Voices beyond the Operating Room: centring global surgery advocacy at the grassroots

Affiliations

• ¹ Operation Smile Ghana, Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana desmond.jumbam@gmail.com.
• ² Department of Policy and Advocacy, Operation Smile, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.
• ³ Center for Equity in Global Surgery, University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Gasabo, Rwanda.
• ⁴ Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⁵ University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Rwanda.
• ⁶ Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• ⁷ Global Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
• ⁸ SADC Regional Collaboration, Centre for Surgical Healthcare, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ⁹ University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia.
• ¹⁰ Department of Anaesthesiology, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
• ¹¹ Interactive Research and Development, Karachi, Pakistan.
• ¹² World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Research in Surgical Care Delivery in Low-and-Middle Income Countries, Mumbai, India.
• ¹³ Centre for Global Surgery, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• ¹⁴ Department of Surgery, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.