Global health, global surgery and mass casualties. I. Rationale for integrated mass casualty centres

Mass gatherings: implications and opportunities for global health security.

2. Mass gatherings have significant implications for public health beyond the acute public health events which may occur and require rapid detection and effective management. These implications extend to the benefits of cross-sectoral preparedness planning and increased capacity in the health infrastructure; the international spread of epidemic or pandemic disease; or the powerful leverage that...

Global Surgery – Redirecting Strategies for a Global Research Agenda; Comment on “Global Surgery – Informing National Strategies for Scaling Up Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa”

More than three years have passed since the publication of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and its recommendations on scaling up surgery in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). An important gap, the voice of the districts as well as lack of contextualized research, has been noted in its support of national surgical plans that run the risk of being at best, aspirational. Moreover, a ‘one-size-fits-...

Resolved stellar mass maps of galaxies. I: method and implications for global mass estimates

We introduce a novel technique to construct spatially resolved maps of stellar mass surface density in galaxies based on optical and near IR imaging. We use optical/NIR colour(s) to infer effective stellar mass-to-light ratios (M/L) at each pixel, which are then multiplied by the surface brightness to obtain the local stellar surface mass density. We build look-up tables to express M/L as a fun...

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...

The Global View: Lessons For Mass. Health Care From Abroad