Dear HIFA Colleagues,
We mostly address patient safety in various service segments however it’s important to ensure patients’ safety throughout the entire journey from admission until discharge from the hospital. This requires a multi-sectorial approach. with the involvement of health providers, policy makers, and global stakeholders toward strengthening the surgical care system, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
I’m pleased to share our recent book chapter ‘Principles of Perioperative Safety and Quality on the Global Stage’ in a surgical book (Springer) on Principles of Perioperative Safety and Efficiency.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-41089-5
Please do share with your colleagues our Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research link for short free online public health courses (surgical care in universal health coverage, and cancer in UHC), and research publications: https://www.gfmer.ch/surgery/research.htm
Best wishes
Dr Meena Nathan Cherian, MBBS, MD (Anaesthesia)
(Former WHO Lead Emergency and Essential Surgical Care Program, Geneva, Switzerland).
Director, Global Health New Challenges:online courses, Geneva Foundation for Medical Education & Research (GFMER), Switzerland. www.gfmer.ch/surgery/cancer.htm
Senior Advisor, Global Action, International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG), Switzerland. Permanent Committees - SIOG
Adjunct Prof.The Chinese University of Hong Kong,Shenzhen,China. https://med.cuhk.edu.cn/en/teacher/371
WHO-HIFA Working Group on Essential Health Services,COVID-19,Learning for Quality Health Services; mHEALTH-INNOVATE.www.hifa.org
Geneva, Switzerland. +41 763837253(m); cherianm15@gmail.com
HIFA profile: Dr Meena Nathan Cherian was a professor of anaesthesiology from Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India. She trained, worked, and taught in several countries, USA (Johns Hopkins Hospital), Southeast Asia and Africa. She worked at the World Health Organization Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, as the Emergency and Essential Surgical Care Program Lead where she created the ‘surgical care’ program resulting in the first World Health Assembly Resolution on ‘Emergency and Essential Surgical Care and Anaesthesia in the context of Universal Health Coverage’.
Currently she works as the Director, Global Health New Challenges program, Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Geneva, Switzerland; Adjunct Prof. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China; Senior Advisor, Global Action, International Society of Geriatric Oncology, Switzerland; Member of the WHO-HIFA Working Group on Essential Health Services and COVID-19; and HIFA mHEALTH-INNOVATE Working Group. cherianm15 AT gmail.com
