Over the past three years, thousands of people have climbed up and down the gangway of the Global Mercy™ while she docked in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Some arrived seeking surgery for conditions that had kept them from school, work, or daily life. Healthcare...
Somewhere in the world right now, a person has gone blind from a condition that a 20-minute operation could fix. Cataracts remain the single leading cause of reversible vision loss globally, yet roughly half of all people who need cataract surgery still can't access...
Most Australians have never heard of obstetric fistula. Yet this serious childbirth injury affects thousands of women across parts of Africa and other low-resource regions every year. It develops when prolonged, obstructed labour goes without medical intervention, and...
Five billion people. That's how many people currently have no access to safe, timely, or affordable surgery, according to the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. To put that number in context, it's nearly two and a half times the population of China. Without access...
Building a clinic is not the same as building a health system. Donating equipment is not the same as ensuring someone knows how to use it, maintain it, or teach others to do the same. Real, lasting progress in African healthcare comes from something harder and more...
Global health is no longer a niche interest for idealistic graduates. It has become one of the most consequential fields in medicine, shaped by disease outbreaks, widening health inequities, and healthcare systems under pressure from climate change and population...