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DESCRIPTION:Please register for the event here.\n\nLecture by Professor Sal
 ome Maswime\, Head of the Global Surgery Division\; Obstetrician and Gynec
 ologist\, University of Cape Town\n\nThe field of Global Surgery envisions
  a world in which all people have access to quality\, comprehensive surgic
 al care.\n\nAbout Professor Salome Maswime:\n\nSalome Maswime is a Profess
 or and the Head of the Global Surgery Division\; an Obstetrician and Gynae
 cologist\, and chair of the University of the Future Project at the Univer
 sity of Cape Town. She is a member of the Academy of Science South Africa\
 , Chairperson of the Health Systems Trust Board\; vice-President of the Wo
 men in Global Health South Africa\; founder and President of the South Afr
 ican Clinician Scientists Society\, Global Council member of LifeBox\; boa
 rd member of FALF and SHAWCO\, and member of the FIGO Committee on Ethical
  Aspects of Human Reproduction. After specialising she completed her MMED 
 and PHD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She did a postdoctoral research fel
 lowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. 
 She has a diploma in Project Management\, a Certificate in Leading Organis
 ations and Change from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, complet
 ed the Young Physician Leaders Programme with ESMT Graduate Business Schoo
 l in Berlin\, has a Certificate in Programme Management at UCT\, and a cer
 tificate in Higher Eduaction Teaching from Harvard.\n\nSalome Maswime is a
  clinician scientist who has worked in several hospiatals in South Africa\
 , including the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital where she spent 1
 0 years. Her research is about access to safe and timely obstetric surgery
  and birth outcomes\; and has pioneered an academic programme in Global Su
 rgery. She has received numerous awards for her research contribution to m
 aternal health\, including the trailblazer and young achiever award by the
  President of South Africa in 2017. In 2020 she was listed in Mail and Gua
 rdians 50 most powerful women in South Africa\, and was awarded a Midcaree
 r Scientist award by the South African Medical Research Council. Professor
  Maswime was named a Next Einstein Fellow in 2019\, a World Econonic Forum
  Young Scientist in 2020\, a Young Shaper of the Future of Health and Medi
 cine by Encyclopedia Brittanica in 2021\, and the winner of Tumani Corrah 
 Prize for Research Excellence in 2022. In 2023 she was the winner of the N
 STF SA MRC Clinican Scientist award\, a national award for pioneering Glob
 al Surgery in Africa.
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LOCATION:Building 3\, Room 133 (3-133)\, 3-133
SUMMARY:Global Surgery: Local Solutions to a Global Challenge
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 _to_a_global_challenge
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