Neurosurgery as a Catalyst for Global Health and Surgery Targets: Road to 2030 Highlights from World Health Organization's 78th World Health Assembly

Authors

• Noor Alesawy, Global Surgery Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland; Center for Global Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.
• Nicole A. Perez, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• Piper Tingleaf, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• Ramya Reddy, Program for Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• Walter Johnson, Department of Neurosurgery, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, USA; Mercy Ships, Garden Valley, Texas, USA.
• Kerry A. Vaughan, Barrow Global, Department of Neurosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
• Eylem Ocal, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
• Tariq Khan, The G4 Alliance, Washington, DC, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Northwest General Hospital and Research Centre, Peshawar, Pakistan.
• Kemel A. Ghotme, Translational Neurosciences and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de La Sabana, Chía, Colombia; Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia.
• Jeffrey Blount, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Children's of Alabama, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
• Mohammad Ali Aziz-Sultan, Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
• Kee B. Park, Program for Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• Gail Rosseau, Barrow Global, Department of Neurosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA; The G4 Alliance, Washington, DC, USA; Department of Neurological Surgery, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. Electronic address: gailrosseaumd@gmail.com.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1-2025

Publication Title

World neurosurgery

E-ISSN

1878-8769

Volume

203

First Page

124487

PubMed ID

40962139

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1016/j.wneu.2025.124487

Recommended Citation

Alesawy, Noor; Perez, Nicole A.; Tingleaf, Piper; Reddy, Ramya; Johnson, Walter; Vaughan, Kerry A.; Ocal, Eylem; Khan, Tariq; Ghotme, Kemel A.; Blount, Jeffrey; Aziz-Sultan, Mohammad Ali; Park, Kee B.; and Rosseau, Gail, "Neurosurgery as a Catalyst for Global Health and Surgery Targets: Road to 2030 Highlights from World Health Organization's 78th World Health Assembly" (2025). Neurosurgery. 2276.
https://scholar.barrowneuro.org/neurosurgery/2276