25th January 2020 I woke up in Hong Kong on the first day of Chinese New Year to an eerie feeling - the usual cheer of welcoming the New Year has been replac...

Dear friend, I am an anaesthetist in a low resource country. I am so glad you want to come to my country and support me, and my department’s, work. We are bo...

The QUESTION A staggering 1.3 billion people live with a visual impairment worldwide; 36 million of these are completely blind[1]. Visual impairment is debil...

Karen Chui Climate change is at the forefront of political discussions around the world. The social movement Extinction Rebellion brought the subject to UK a...

Car vs car. Head-on collision. Head on windscreen collision. Headed to my local doctor. He watched and waited. Hours. Then sent me to hospital. But it was to...

Whilst conflict is a major barrier to general health provision in low and middle income countries (LMICs) its effect on maternal and child health is particul...

One of the five key messages delivered by the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery is that to reach a minimum operative volume of 5000 surgical procedures per...

The Air Pollution Problem In the last 15years UK diesel car use has risen from 12 to 40%. Light lorries and vans are 96% diesel. Pollutants from diesel, like...

As of the end of 2017, 68.5 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced from their homes largely as a result of conflict or violence. Of these peopl...

Karen Chui On 14th March 2019 tropical Cyclone Idai swept through Southern Africa, destroying towns and villages in its path and affecting thousands of peopl...

A selection of recently published papers detailing some of the issues facing people at different ages of the life cycle across the African continent. 1. The ...

If you’ve been awake the past couple of weeks, you won’t have been able to escape the news of Tropical Cyclone Idai. On 14th March 2019, Cyclone Idai made la...

There is no denying the healthcare work force inequity across the world. Ten years ago, the World Health Organisation described health worker emigration as t...

The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery tried to raise awareness about access to surgery and provision of surgery around the world. The Commission highlighte...

As a more globally focused medical culture begins to take hold of the UK medical workforce, more and more trainees are looking for an outlet to channel their...

GASOC were delighted to partner with the Royal College of Surgeons of England in delivering a workshop at the popular "Global Surgical Frontiers" (GSF) confe...

The reason why GASOC exists is because of this paper and the impact it had on the trainees present the the Global Surgical Frontiers Conference in 2015! To r...