Innovative blood transfusion strategies to address global blood deserts: a consensus statement from the Blood Delivery via Emerging Strategies for Emergency Remote Transfusion (Blood DESERT) Coalition

Affiliations

• ¹ Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³ Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, WHO, Cairo, Egypt.
• ⁴ Sub-county Langata and Kibera, Nairobi Metropolitan Health Services, Nairobi, Kenya; Sisu Global Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Research, Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation, National Blood Service, Accra, Ghana.
• ⁷ Biotherapies, AABB, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• ⁸ US Army Institute of Surgical Research, Houston, TX, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Anesthesia, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹⁰ Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹¹ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.
• ¹² University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
• ¹³ Allied Hospital Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
• ¹⁴ Department of Surgery, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
• ¹⁵ Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA.
• ¹⁶ Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, East Bay, Oakland, CA, USA.
• ¹⁷ Department of Medical Services, Turkana County Government, Lodwar, Kenya.
• ¹⁸ Department of Transfusion Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
• ¹⁹ Dr RN Cooper Municipal Medical College and General Hospital: Hinduhridaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Medical College and Rustom Narsi Cooper Municipal General Hospital, Mumbai, India; WHO Collaboration Center for Research in Surgical Care Delivery in Low and Middle Income Countries, Mumbai, India.
• ²⁰ Department of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• ²¹ Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
• ²² Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ²³ Operative Care, Clinical Services and Systems, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ²⁴ Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ²⁵ Department of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
• ²⁶ WHO Collaboration Center for Research in Surgical Care Delivery in Low and Middle Income Countries, Mumbai, India.
• ²⁷ Coalition of Blood for Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.