Surgery

Winners of the Untold Global Health Stories of 2019 Announced!

Surgeons are at work during restorative surgery on a survivor of female genital mutilation in Nairobi, Kenya on May 11, 2017.

Gender Equity Key to Providing Patients with Best Possible Surgical Care

Operating tools are seen as pediatric heart surgeon Issam al-Rassi performs a heart operation on 9-month-old Syrian refugee Amena al-Helou at the Hammoud Universal Hospital in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 2016.

Do We Have a Right to Surgery? The Case for Access to All

Venture into the Untold

Blazing Injustice: The Hidden Crisis of Burn Injuries

Hamda Mohamed Omar (left), a nurse anesthetist/trainer from Edna Adan hospital in Hargeisa, at work with a visiting surgeon.

After Years of War, the Fight for Health

Prayer flags fluttering above Nepal. Image Courtesy of Emaline Laney.

How Emaline Laney Found the Untold Global Health Story of 2017

Saraswoti, who suffered terrible burns when she stumbled into a pot of oil heating on the open-fire stove in the middle of her family’s one-room home, sits with her father.

Unmeasured and Unfunded: Lack of Data Hinders Burn Prevention and Care

Saraswoti Shrestha was burned as a child when she fell into a cooking fire in her family's previous one-room home.

Blazing Injustice: The Hidden Crisis of Burn Injuries

Dr. Shankar Man Rai taking a skin graft in a Nepal operating room.

Reconstructing Hope: A Surgeon's Mission to Help Nepal's Burn Patients

Sculpture outside the UN HQ in NY.

#UNGA72: Uniting Nations

Participants at the safe surgery panel

Surgery Can't Be Sidelined