Building Healthier Societies

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BUILDING HEALTHIER SOCIETIES

Generations of RCSI graduates, faculty and researchers have dedicated their careers to addressing the healthcare needs of populations across 97 countries. With this diverse and distinguished medical community, RCSI HAS

A UNIQUE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON

POPULATION HEALTH.

Our initiatives focus on areas in which RCSI leadership can make a difference to patients both in Ireland and around the world.

GLOBAL SURGERY THANKS TO YOU WE ARE... INCREASING SURGICAL ACCESS FOR POPULATIONS IN NEED

Founded by a group of pioneering surgeons committed to making surgical care accessible to the people of Ireland over two centuries ago; RCSI has remained true to this noble purpose. Since the early 2000’s, RCSI has focused efforts on aligning our clinical expertise and world-class research in order to address some of the world’s most challenging health issues, most notably the lack of access to safe, affordable surgical care.

RECRUITING WORLD CLASS LEADERS

In 2018, building on this track record, RCSI secured funding from the Iris

O’Brien Foundation to establish the RCSI Institute of Global Surgery.

In July 2020, Professor Mark Shrime will join RCSI as the Founding

O’Brien Chair of Global Surgery. Professor Shrime joins RCSI from

Harvard Medical School, where he is an Assistant Professor of

Otolaryngology and of Global Health and Social Medicine. Most recently he was a Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University’s

Centre for Health and Wellbeing and he remains a Staff Surgeon on the Mercy Ships, the world’s largest charity hospital ship which docks in various ports around coastal Africa.

GLOBAL SURGERY: IMPACT IN NUMBERS

Working with a network that spans 14 COUNTRIES, 180 HOSPITAL SITES, and includes over 1,300 SURGICAL CARE PROVIDERS RCSI is able to: 1. Train healthcare workers in rural health centres to carry out basic emergency surgeries ensuring that life-saving services are available to those most in need (delivered by SURG Africa, funded by the EU

Horizon 2020 programme) 2. Support significant improvements in how patients are referred ensuring that they get the best care within the shortest timeframe 3. Train more specialist surgeons through our partnership with the

College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA), funded by Irish Aid.

93 Percent of COSECSA surgeons remain in region after graduation

124 Accredited

training hospitals across 14 countries

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Irish Aid, Horizon 2020 and foundation funding to date

19,OOO,OOO People now have access to quality assured care through the SURG Africa intervention 448 Surgeons have graduated to date through the COSECSA collaboration

350 Non-Physician Clinicans currently in training for basic surgical procedures

742 Surgical trainees currently in the COSECSA programme

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Operations that will be performed during the careers of the current trainees and graduates