The Global Paediatric Surgery Network Collaborative is a group of globally-minded pediatric surgeons, working together to improve the quality of pediatric surgical care world wide, through projects in Networking, Practice, Education, Research, and Advocacy. Please contact us by email if you are interested in joining the GPSN Collaborative: collaborative@globalpaediatricsurgery.org
Research Projects
- Review disparities in pediatric surgical outcomes between low- and middle-income countries (LMIC's) and high-income countries (HIC)
- Review burden of disease concepts as they apply to pediatric surgery
- Develop databases for prospective collection of pediatric surgical data across multiple sites
- Perform institutional and community-based studies estimating the magnitude of the avertable burden of pediatric surgical disease and the backlog of pediatric surgical cases
- Develop disability weights for pediatric surgical conditions, for use in Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY) calculations
