2016 Johns Hopkins - Pulitzer Center Symposium: Operation Health - Surgery's Emerging Role in Global Health

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A mother dies giving birth. A child loses a leg because a gunshot wound will not heal. A man with a burst appendix walks miles to a hospital. 

More than 5 billion people worldwide lack access to safe, affordable and timely surgical and anesthesia care. In 2010, nearly 17 million lives were lost from conditions requiring surgical attention, more than the number of deaths from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

The 2016 Johns Hopkins-Pulitzer Center Symposium will explore surgery’s place on the global health agenda with surgeons who have worked in affected countries and trained local providers, and a Pulitzer Center journalist who has done in-depth reporting on the issue.

Speakers

Bridget Huber
Journalist, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Adam Kushner, MD, MPH ’99, FACS
Founder and Director, Surgeons OverSeas (SOS)
Associate, International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Lecturer, Surgery, Columbia University
Adjunct Professor, Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Amber Mehmood, MBBS, FCPS
Assistant Scientist, International Health
International Injury Research Unit, Emergency Medical Services
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Asad Latif, MBBS, MD, MPH ’12
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Kent Stevens, MD, MPH ’08
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine