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