Table 1 Partner organisations’ key messages and areas of work
From: Strategic partnerships to improve surgical care in the Asia–Pacific region: proceedings
Organisation type | Organisation name | Region/country | Key messages and areas of work by health system domain |
|---|---|---|---|
Inter-governmental organisation | WHO Integrated Health Services Department | Global | • Ecosystem approach to surgical care congruent with the primary health care for UHC narrative |
UNITAR | Global | Workforce: high-level learning solutions, a platform for online courses, NSOAP workshop | |
SPC | Pacific | • The importance of regional collaboration & leadership in advocacy, training, and NSOAP development • Sustaining support during NSOAP implementation | |
Professional associations | WFSA | Global | • Adopting the WHO-WFSA International Standards for a Safe Practice of Anaesthesia • Anaesthetists should be at the table when NSOAPs are developed |
RACS | Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific, Timor Leste, Myanmar | • Pivoting to remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic Service delivery: visiting specialists Infrastructure: equipment donation Workforce: training, scholarships, online education, training governance & regulation, curriculum development, competence-based training | |
RANZCOG | Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific | • The importance of advancing surgical care in managing obstetric complications and cervical cancer • Innovative capacity-building solutions, such as distance and flexible learning • The need for collaboration across disciplines Governance: guideline creation Workforce: capacity building | |
GICS | Global | • Unique surgical needs of children Governance: Optimum Resources for Children’s Surgery guideline, technical advice on integrating paediatric surgery into NSOAPs | |
Academic & research institutions | WHO CC Mongolia | Mongolia | Service delivery: development of minimally invasive and liver transplantation services |
WHO CC Mumbai | India | • The importance of South-South collaboration • The need to strengthen financing, leadership, and governance in NSOAPs Information management: trauma care, blood access, and workforce capacity research | |
Fiji National University | Pacific | • Regional collaboration in training surgical, obstetric, and anaesthesia providers in the Pacific • The need to develop in-country training | |
Lancet Diagnostics Commission | Global | • The importance of diagnostics to surgical and obstetric care • The role of pathologists in service delivery and guideline and policy development in global surgery | |
Non-governmental organisation | Interplast Australia & New Zealand | Australia, New Zealand, 18 countries in the Asia–Pacific | Service delivery: plastics and reconstructive surgery Workforce: capacity building, online support |
Health volunteer overseas | United States, Cambodia, Bhutan, Laos | Workforce: developing degree and residency programs, simulation training Governance: guideline development | |
Private sector | Johnson & Johnson | Asia–Pacific | Infrastructure: providing equipment and supplies Workforce: education, capacity building, access to digital education |