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IMAGE: TTUHSC s Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, M.D., M.S., serves as one of CovidSurg Collaborative s U.S. National Leads. The group recently published a report titled, Recovery of Surgical Services in the Post-Pandemic Era: Surgery. view more
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In 2013, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) established the GlobalSurg Collaborative, a network that has since grown to include more than 5,000 practicing surgeons from all corners of the planet. Through GlobalSurg, networks of local, state, national and international researchers have formed to analyze surgical disparities and outcomes. Their mission is to study and advance global surgery, a term used to describe a multidisciplinary field of health care that seeks to improve access to basic surgical procedures for the estimated five billion people worldwide who lack such access.