Centre for Global Surgery
Research
The core mandate of the centre is research with teaching/learning and policy/advocacy as secondary pillars.
Active Projects
Delays to Access Care
- Identifying barriers and enablers to increasing the surgical capacity of Rural District Hospitals in the Northern Cape.
- Identifying barriers to accessing health care for chronic wounds in the Khayelitsha sub-district: A mixed methods study
- Time to regional surgical care in rural South Africa
- Time to accessing breast cancer in Cape Metro West
- The Risk Factors for Unresected Gastric Adencarcinoma in South Africa: A National Cancer Registry Analysis
- Colorectal cancer resection rates in South Africa
- Exploring pathways to accessing care for appendectomy in the Western Cape Government Health System, South Africa
- Referral pathways and time to care for injured patients admitted to hospitals in urban and rural South Africa
Health System Strengthening
- Emergency Medical Services for trauma before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa
- Incidence of lower limb amputations among diabetic patients in low- and middle-income countries
- Fracture evaluation management and understanding research (FEMUR)
- Assessing barriers to equitable access to quality care and patient outcomes
- Injury pathway modelling
- Exploring caesarean sections from a training perspective for low- and middle-income countries
- Post-injury survival, patient reported quality of life and the cost-effectiveness of injury care in South Africa
- Types and mechanisms of traumatic injuries and related risk factors influencing length of hospital stay for patients in South African hospitals
- Interpersonal violence and related risk factors in rural and urban South Africa
- Mixed methods assessment of quality of injury care in South Africa
- Governance and political landscape of injury care in South Africa
- Bellwether capacity of district hospitals in South Africa: A cross-sectional survey
Community-Based Research
- Exploring the role of indigenous knowledge healers in Diabetes Mellitus and Foot Infections screening in the Rural Eastern Cape
- The role of indigenous knowledge healers in surgical care in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Identifying stakeholder needs for embedding sustainable solutions around injury care
- Creating equitable surgical access in rural South Africa: community screening and clinic referrals for diabetic foot infection in rural Eastern Cape
- Improving surgical care: exploring potential collaborations between the indigenous and formal health sectors
- From theory to practice: how a rural South African community translated research to action in injury healthcare
