Dates: 28 to 29 November 2025
Venue: Bujumbura, Burundi
Time: 08h00 to 17h00
Duration: 16 hours
Course fee
$70 (Payment via EFT only)
Global surgery integrates efforts to improve access to safe, timely, and affordable surgical care worldwide, especially in resource-limited settings. This field is crucial in addressing the high burden of surgical diseases across Africa. This workshop provides a unique opportunity to equip surgeons, trainees, and healthcare managers with foundational concepts and leadership skills to strengthen surgical systems in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Global Surgery Division at the University of Cape Town, founded in 2019, has been at the forefront of international and national global surgery dialogues, education, research, and initiatives, creating an ideal opportunity to engage and familiarize clinicians and scientists with global surgery concepts. Equipping surgeons and surgical trainees in Africa with Global Surgery principles and concepts could help strengthen surgical systems in Africa.
The course aims to provide participants with an understanding of global surgery principles, the surgical policy enagement, and leadership skills necessary to advocate for and implement improvements in surgical systems across Africa.
Who Should Attend?
• Registrars
• Surgeons and specialists in the surgical disciplines
• Surgical scientists
• Healthcare managers
• Global health advocates
• Surgical Trainees
• Surgical Managers
• Aspiring surgeons
Course Objectives
• To introduce foundational global surgery principles and the concepts of strengthening and supporting surgical health systems.
• To introduce the interaction between policy and surgical systems strengthening
• To introduce strategies used to address the unment need for surgical care
Lecturers and Facilitators
Prof Salome Maswime (Convener)
Professor and the Head of the Global Surgery Division at the University of Cape Town; and an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, South Africa
Dr Simon Le Roux (Co-convener)
Senior lecturer, Global Surgery Division, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Lebo Moloi
Acute Care Surgeon, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town
Dr Mary Kinney
Senior Lecturer at the Global Surgery Division, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Moses Isiagi
Senior lecturer, Global Surgery division, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Prof Barnabas Alayande
General Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda
Dr Mumba Chalwe
Head of Urology Department, Ndola Teaching Hospital; Presidnt of WISA, Zambia
Dr Patricia Shinondo, Women in Surgery Africa, Zambia
Dr Arsene Muhumuza
Operation Smile
Dr Innocent Mugisha
Association of Burundi Surgeons
For more information or to register email ce.administration@uct.ac.za