Investing in surgery: a value proposition for African leaders

Affiliations

• ¹ Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ² Wits Centre of Surgical Care for Primary Health and Sustainable Development, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; PSDM-Cabinet Office, Office of the President, Lusaka, Zambia.
• ³ Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁴ World Bank Group, Washington, DC, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁶ Office of Executive Director, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Windhoek, Namibia.
• ⁷ UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁸ Global Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa. Electronic address: salome.maswime@uct.ac.za.