WHAT EFFECT CAN WHAT EFFECT CAN SURGEONS HAVE ON SURGEONS HAVE ON WORLD HEALTH?WORLD HEALTH?

Professor Harold Ellis Medical Student Prize for Surgery

Presenter: Aimun JamjoomUniversity: Nottingham Medical School

Accounting for inattentionAccounting for inattention

Emphasis has been on primary prevention and community health education

Concerned with communicable diseasesConsidered too cost ineffective, high tech

and individually focused

In realityIn reality

Account 11% of entire disease burdenEstimated to equate to 164 million

disability-adjusted life years234 million operations performed in 2002

What can be done?What can be done?

Infrastructure

Training

Research

GIEESCGIEESC

Established in December 2005Increase collaborationStrengthen capacity to deliver

effective surgical treatment

Training and EducatingTraining and Educating

Research and critical Research and critical evaluation evaluation

Thank you…