Ethical Challenges in Global Surgery

Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, PhD
Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine,
Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
 
Rashi Jhunjhunjwala, MD, MA
Surgeon, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston
 
Michelle Joseph, MBBS, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD
Surgeon and Instructor of Global Health and Social Medicine,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
 
Moderator:
John Meara, MD, DMD, MBA
Professor of Surgery and Kletjian Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine in the field of Global Surgery, Harvard Medical School
 
Abstract: This session discusses the gaps in access to safe and affordable surgical care and the moral obligation to address these gaps, whether short-term surgical missions should play a role in providing surgical care in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), and the ethics of bringing complex surgical procedures to LMICs.
 
This is the first of four sessions on surgical ethics. Register here. 
 
Presented by the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics' Surgical Ethics Working Group