Stanford Global Health News

As many as five billion people – or two-thirds of the world’s population - do no have access to safe, affordable surgery, according to a major new report published in The Lancet. The report, from the Lancet Commission in Global Surgery, brings attention to this enormous surgery gap and argues that building surgical infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries is critical both from an economic, as well as a human, perspective. Stanford trauma surgeon and member of the Lancet Commission, Thomas Weiser, MD, spoke with Stanford Medicine about the findings. Get the full story.

While worldwide eradication of polio appears almost within reach, a mutated form of the virus derived from the vaccine used to eradicate it poses a concerning risk, explains Dr. Yvonne Maldonado in a Huffington Post Op-Ed. Dr. Maldonado and others are working to devise a strategy to keep a new version of the poliovirus from spreading. Read more from Stanford Medicine.

Global Oncology, Inc., a nonprofit co-founded by CIGH's director of global oncology, Dr. Ami Bhatt, has launched the Global Cancer Project Map, an interactive database that enables immediate access to more than 800 cancer projects around the world in an effort to advance cancer research and care in low-resources areas. Developed in partnership with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the Map was unveiled at the NCI Symposium on Global Cancer Research in Boston. Read more from the San Francisco Business Journal, and explore the Map.

Dr. Gavin Yamey of the University of California-San Francisco discussed the importance of importance of investing in global health in a conversation with Stanford Medicine's Chief Communications Officer, Paul Costello. Read more about his talk or watch a replay of the event.

Watch the most recent Bay Area Global Health Seminar, "Global Health Action on a Crowded Earth." The seminar series is hosted quarterly through a collaboration of Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, and UC Davis.

Watch the New York Times video, featuring Stanford's Dr. Colin Bucks, on Liberia's battle against Ebola.

Read Dr. Michele Barry's article in the Boston Review on what makes this Ebola outbreak unique.

Dr. Sherry Wren is interviewed about surgery in West Africa in the midst of the Ebola Outbreak. Read the interview and watch the media clip here. Also be sure to check out Dr. Wren's interview in the Daily Mail article, "Doctors face 'collatoral damage' from Ebola epidemic."

Dr. Steve Luby says, "This rigorous evaluation is important because it provides the best evidence to date for the uncomfortable conclusion that well-funded professionally delivered sanitation programmes, even when reaching typical coverage levels, do not necessarily improve health." Read more.

Rajesh Gupta discusses the Ebola outbreak and the development of treatments to combat the disease. 

Visit (or revisit!) Stanford's panel discussion, "Ebola: Health, Governance, Security and Ethical Dimensions" that was held on September 23. Watch the full discussion. 

Dean Barry and Larry Gostin JD discuss the Ebola outbreak and workforce shortages associated with the spread of the disease in this LA Times Op-Ed.

Check out this Lancet article by Stanford Biodesign's Tiffany Chao, Nathan Lo, Gita Mody and Sidhartha Sinha on "Strategies for last mile implemetation of global health technologies," including medical devices and interventions developed specifically for low-resource settings that are low cost, easy to use, and culturally appropriate.

Surgical resident, Jordan Cloyd, reflects on lessons learned and experiences gained during his surgical rotation in Zimbabwe.

Ugandan physician Dr. Geoffrey Anguyo, discusses his work at the Kigonzi clinic.

Review his presentation here, and the short videos he shared on our YouTube channel.

The Haas Center for Public Service, the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and the Center for Innovation in Global Health presented a special event on Thursday, May 1, 2014 featuring CARE President and CEO, Helene Gayle and former Prime Minister of Norway and United Nations Special Envoy, Gro Brundtland. Dr. Michele Barry, director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health moderated the conversation.

Event partners included FACE AIDS, Organization for Global Health, Stanford Association for International Development, Stanford in Government, Stanford Journal of Public Health and the Stanford Vaccine Forum. For pictures and videos, please visit the CDDRL Flickr Album and the CDDRL Youtube Channel.

Watch the video clip to learn more about Dr. Barry's reflections on the inconvenient truths about global research on women.