Centre for Global Surgery
Current Research
Our research is framed around health systems strengthening in surgical care, improving decentralised surgical services, and understanding barriers to access to surgical care. Our current projects include:
Access to care
- Equitable access to quality care after injury in four low- and middle-income countries
- Exploring pathways to accessing care for appendectomy in the Western Cape Government Health System, South Africa
- Mapping time to accessing surgical care at Worcester regional hospital, South Africa
- Time to accessing care for breast cancer patients in the Cape Metro West, South Africa
- Barriers to accessing care for chronic wounds in the Khayelitsha township, South Africa
- Access and identification of barriers to care for persons with traumatic brain injury in the Khayelitsha health district
- Social determinants of seeking and reaching injury care in South Africa: A qualitative study
- Effect of the South African response to the COVID-19 pandemic on out-of-hospital and facility- based emergency injury care in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
Health system strengthening
- Global surgery actors: stakeholder mapping via a social network analysis
- Surgical capacity of Zimbabwe's public sector hospitals
- Impact of a district hospital orthopaedic service on acute orthopaedic referrals in Cape Town, South Africa
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Development and scope of practice of the South African clinical associate
Burden of disease
- The causes of electrical burns at a tertiary hospital burns unit pre-and-peri COVID-19 pandemic
- Incidence of lower limb amputations among diabetic patients in low- and middle-income countries
- Resection rates of gastric and colorectal cancer in South Africa
- Misdiagnosis of appendicitis in women at New Somerset Hospital, South Africa
