OGS Process for Global Surgery Partnerships

All initiatives have been or will be developed through a needs assessment that includes an expressed or identified need, stakeholder engagement, and a longitudinal monitoring and evaluation program ensuring it aligns with the OGS Ethical Framework.

DEVELOPING AN ETHICAL FRAMEWORK FOR GLOBAL SURGICAL PARTNERSHIPS

Global Surgery has emerged to now encompass activities ranging from short-term surgical missions to sustained initiatives in developing health systems within a community. At the heart of these collaborations is a desire to address the unmet needs of equitable access to high-quality surgical care around the world.

While there is agreement about the presence of these needs, there have yet to be any consensus around how to best address these needs ethically and effectively. In response to this identified gap, the Office of Global Surgery (OGS) established a Global Surgery Ethical Framework Working Group to develop a framework to navigate the ethical and pragmatic considerations to global surgical care.

Since January 2019, the Working Group has been leading an international collaborative dialogue to develop key principles and themes to this framework through a series of collaborative webinars and a workshop held at the 2019 Bethune Round Table Conference.

Please connect with us to learn more about our needs assessment and ethical framework process (globsurg@ualberta.ca).