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
- 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
- Exploring the perceptions and experiences of surgeons and post-appendectomy persons in the WCGHS
Health system strengthening
- Trauma Patterns in the Cape Metro
- Global surgery actors: stakeholder mapping via a social network analysis
- Surgical capacity of Zimbabwe's public sector hospitals
- Development and scope of practice of the South African clinical associate
Burden of disease
- The change in burn injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa: a retrospective study from a large tertiary referral centre
- 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
