Implementation science and innovation in global surgery

Progress in Global Surgery; Comment on “Global Surgery – Informing National Strategies for Scaling Up Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa”

Impressive progress has been made in global surgery in the past 10 years, and now serious and evidence-based national strategies are being developed for scaling-up surgical services in sub-Saharan Africa. Key to achieving this goal requires developing a realistic country-based estimate of burden of surgical disease, developing an accurate estimate of existing need, deve...

Reinventing global health: the role of science, technology, and innovation.

Science, Innovation, and Innovation in the Science of Pharmacy

Need for more and better implementation science in global health

Correspondence to Professor Valéry Ridde; [email protected] ‘We know what we have to do, but we don’t know how to do it’ has been a recurring comment among global health actors for a long time. In 2010, for example, the United Nations affirmed that ‘we know what works’ in taking care of the health of women and children. The WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (2008) has ...

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