COVID-19 Preparedness Within the Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthetic Ecosystem in Sub-Saharan Africa

Affiliations

• ¹ University of Lagos and Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria.
• ² National Institute of Health Research Global Surgery Unit, Lagos Hub, Lagos, Nigeria.
• ³ Pan Africa Paediatric Surgery Association.
• ⁴ University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Rwanda.
• ⁵ Chair of Examinations, College of Surgeons of Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa.
• ⁶ Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• ⁷ President, Surgical Society of Ethiopia.
• ⁸ College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi.
• ⁹ Secretary General, College of Surgeons of Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa.
• ¹⁰ Smile Train, Francophone West Africa (Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso).
• ¹¹ Lifebox Foundation.
• ¹² Past President, College of Surgeons of Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa.
• ¹³ Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
• ¹⁴ Medical Advisory Board Member, Smile Train.
• ¹⁵ St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• ¹⁶ President, Ethiopian Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
• ¹⁷ Makerere University, Kampala College of Health Sciences, Uganda.
• ¹⁸ Governing Council, Association of Surgeons of Uganda.
• ¹⁹ Ariadne Labs at Brigham Health and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
• ²⁰ Haven, LCC.
• ²¹ Boston, MA.
• ²² University Cheikh Anta DIOP, Dakar, Senegal.
• ²³ President, West African College of Surgeons.
• ²⁴ NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery, Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ²⁵ Past President, College of Surgeons of Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa Department of Surgery, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
• ²⁶ World Health Organization Emergency and Essential Surgical Care Program.
• ²⁷ Medecins Sans Frontieres, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ²⁸ Global Initiative for Children's Surgery.
• ²⁹ Gertrude's Hospital Division of Anesthesia, Nairobi, Kenya.
• ³⁰ President, Kenya Society of Anaesthesiologists.
• ³¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Baerum Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
• ³² President, World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists.
• ³³ University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe.
• ³⁴ President, College of Surgeons of Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa.
• ³⁵ Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
• ³⁶ Education Committee, Association of Anesthesiologists of Uganda.
• ³⁷ Lifebox Pulse Oximeter Clinical Advisory Group, Lifebox Foundation.
• ³⁸ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rwanda Military Hospital (affiliated with University of Rwanda), Kigali, Rwanda.
• ³⁹ President, Rwanda Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
• ⁴⁰ President, East, Central, and Southern Africa College of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
• ⁴¹ University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.
• ⁴² National Institute of Health Research Global Surgery Unit, Rwanda Hub.
• ⁴³ Finance Committee, East, Central, and Southern Africa College of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
• ⁴⁴ University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
• ⁴⁵ University for Development Studies-School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tamale, Ghana.
• ⁴⁶ National Institute of Health Research Global Surgery Unit, Ghana Hub.
• ⁴⁷ President, Ethiopian Society of Anesthesiologists.
• ⁴⁸ Lifebox Foundation, London, UK.
• ⁴⁹ Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland Foundation.
• ⁵⁰ Stanford University, Stanford, CA.