Working in low- and middle-income countries: Learning from each other

Jake Timothy; Marcel Ivanov; Magnus Tisell; Nicolò Marchesini; Jesus Lafuente; Nikos Foroglou; Massimiliano Visocchi; Fatos Olldashi; Pablo Gonzalez-Lopez; Jamil Rzaev; Peter Whitfield; Wilco C Peul; Lukas Rasulic; Andreas K Demetriades

doi:10.1016/j.bas.2022.101689

Working in low- and middle-income countries: Learning from each other

Brain Spine. 2022 Nov 3:2:101689. doi: 10.1016/j.bas.2022.101689. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Jake Timothy^{1

2}, Marcel Ivanov^{1

3}, Magnus Tisell^{1

4}, Nicolò Marchesini^{1

5}, Jesus Lafuente^{1

6}, Nikos Foroglou^{1

7}, Massimiliano Visocchi^{1

8}, Fatos Olldashi^{1

9}, Pablo Gonzalez-Lopez^{1

10}, Jamil Rzaev^{1

11}, Peter Whitfield¹², Wilco C Peul¹³, Lukas Rasulic^{1

14}, Andreas K Demetriades^{1

15}

Affiliations

¹ Global and Humanitarian Neurosurgery Committee, European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), UK.
² Department of Neurosurgery, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK.
³ Department of Neurosurgery, Sheffield Teaching Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
⁴ Department of Neurosurgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden.
⁵ Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Borgo Trento, Verona, Italy.
⁶ Spine Center, Hospital Del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ Department of Neurosurgery, AHEPA University Hospital, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁸ CVJ Surgery Unit, Institute of Neurosurgery, Catholic University of Rome, Italy.
⁹ Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Trauma, Tirana, Albania.
¹⁰ Department of Neurosurgery, General University Hospital Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
¹¹ Federal Neurosurgical Center, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation.
¹² Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth, UK.
¹³ University Neurosurgical Center Holland, HMC-HAGA The Hague & LUMC Leiden, Netherlands.
¹⁴ Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Clinic for Neurosurgery, University Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
¹⁵ Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, UK.

Abstract

•Barriers may limit LMICs-HICs collaborations: infrastructure, equipment's lack/inadequacy, political issues, brain drain.•Local training is crucial for universal health coverage; several activities are headed by Global Neurosurgery organisations.•The EANS Global and Humanitarian Neurosurgery Committee aims to become a gateway for partnerships between HICs and LMICs.

Keywords: Capacity development; Global health; Global neurosurgery; Global surgery; Health system strengthening; Workforce.