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 increase surgical capacity in rural district hospitals in Northern Cape
- Barriers to accessing care for chronic wounds in the Khayelitsha sub-district
- Creating an Appendectomy algorithm for use in a provincial database
- Assessing time to accessing appendectomy in the Western Cape
- Referral pathways and time to care for injured patients
- Time to access breast cancer in Cape Metro West
Health System Strengthening
- Pediatric trauma patterns as experienced by EMS in the Cape Metro
- Assessing barriers to equitable access to quality care and patients outcome
- Ongoing needs in global surgery
- Policy landscape for injury care in South Africa
- Interpersonal violence and associated risk factors for 4 LMIC
- Mapping gunshot injuries in the Cape Metro
- Types and mechanism of traumatic injuries and related risk factors
Community-Based Research
- Can Indigenous Knowledge Healers to Screen for Diabetes Foot Infection in Rural South Africa: Lessons Learned for Working Across Health Sectors?
- Why injured people seek indigenous knowledge healers: A qualitative study
- Expanding the lenses of Community Engagement in Global Research: Key Lessons from the Equi-Injury Project
- Improving surgical care in rural South Africa: potential collaborations between indigenous and formal health sectors
Epidemiological Studies
- Fracture Evaluation Management & Understanding Research Global (FEMUR): A global prospective
- Systematic review on the Incidence of lower limb amputations among diabetic patients in LMICs
- Outcomes in emergency and elective colorectal cancer surgery at Tygerberg hospital
- Pre-op functional status in emergency and elective colorectal cancer surgery at Tygerberg hospital
- Systematic review on major lower limb amputations, global incidence, outcomes, and aetiology
