Education

Global surgery is a relatively new and exciting interdisciplinary field of enquiry, research, practice, and advocacy that aims to improve health outcomes and achieve health equity for all people who need surgical, obstetric and anesthesia care, with a special emphasis on underserved, marginalized populations and those in crisis. The 3 day course aims to give students foundational knowledge about the unmet need for surgical healthcare globally so that students can understand surgical systems strengthening approaches to address access to surgical care challenges. 

Convener: Prof Salome Maswime

Course convener: Dr Oluchi Mbamalu

Date:  TBC

Enquiries: Pam Magwa

The is a masters degree by dissertation, conducted under supervision. Students are trained in statistics (where necessary), in research methods, in conducting literature reviews, and in designing research proposals. Having submitted their research proposals for approval and having obtained formal ethics approval where necessary, candidates proceed with their research, analyse the results and write up the dissertation. The dissertation must not exceed 50,000 words in length and must be on a topic in global surgery with a focus on surgical health systems strengthening. The dissertation is externally examined. 

Course convener: Mr Moses Isiagi

Course online: 

MSc Global Surgery 2025 Outline

Enquiries: Pam Magwa

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Global surgery is a relatively new and exciting interdisciplinary field of enquiry, research, practice, and advocacy that aims to improve health outcomes and achieve health equity for all people who need surgical, obstetric and anaesthesia care, with a special emphasis on underserved, marginalized populations and those in crisis.

The course aims to give students foundational knowledge about the unmet need for surgical healthcare globally, so that students can understand a surgical systems strengthening approach to address access to surgical care challenges.

Course outline: 

MPH Global Surgery Track Outline 2025

Course convener:

Global Surgery Track convener: Prof Salome Maswime

Fundamentals in Global Surgery: Dr Oluchi Mbamalu

Global Surgical Systems: Dr Mary Kinney

Community Eye Health I and II: Dr Deon Minnies

Enquiries: Pam Magwa

This is a PhD degree by thesis. 

The student must attain: 

• A comprehensive and systemic grasp of a discipline’s body of knowledge with expertise and specialist knowledge in an area at the forefront of the discipline.
• A critical understanding of the most advanced research methodologies, techniques and technologies in the discipline.
• An ability to participate in scholarly debates at the cutting edge of an area of specialisation.
• An ability to apply knowledge, theory and research methods creatively to complex practical, theoretical and epistemological problems. 

The candidate should demonstrate advanced information retrieval and processing skills and an ability to effectively present and communicate the results of research and opinion to specialist and non-specialist audiences, using the full resources of an academic and professional discourse. The production of the doctoral thesis must meet international standards of scholarly and professional writing, and be up to 80,000 words in length.

Course convener:  Dr Oluchi Mbamalu

Enquiries: Pam Magwa

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This five-day course, run in partnership with the , aims to enable leaders in healthcare in the public, private and voluntary sectors to become change agents. The course provides motivation for what global surgery is and why it matters; how to implement global surgery projects and programmes; and how to support innovation.

The course is aimed at leaders in healthcare, and at executives and administrators that can impact policy and system change. Participants will be taught to design and lead evidence-based projects and programmes that improve surgical outcomes in their respective organisations, and influence surgical healthcare on a large-scale basis. 

Course outline: 

Executive Leadership Course Outline 2025

Course convener: Prof Salome Maswime and Dr Simon LeRoux

Inquiries: Pam Magwa