My name is Helen Please & I’m delighted to be both on the GASOC advisory board and the current committee (as immediate past president). Some of my global connections including OUGSG (the Oxford University Global Surgery Group); Mengo Hospital, Kampala, Uganda (as a trustee of their UK charity), ACE at Makerere University, Kampala (the African Centre of Excellent for Bioinformatics), VRiMS (Virtual Reality in Medicine & Surgery), and HVM, Madagascar (the Good News Hospital). If any of these connection are useful please get in contact.