Our staff, trainers, and partners are always on the move at site visits, training courses, conferences, and the like. Keep up with our updates here!
The Gradian team has recently returned from Nepal where the UAM was installed in four new hospitals. Dr. Resham Rana from Bir Hospital, Steve Rudy, and a biomedical engineer and manager from our partner The Nick Simons Institute installed UAMs at AMDA Hospital Damak; Okhaldungha Community Hospital, Model Hospital and Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology. The […]
(Blog post by the team from MIT’s Global Health Lab: Stephanie Wai, Jessica Lin, Laura Numair, Dina Amin) MIT’s Global Health Lab presents students with the opportunity to take in-classroom frameworks and tools and apply them to impactful, on-the-ground projects. As four MIT Sloan students with varied backgrounds in finance, operations, life sciences, and non-profits, our […]
Gradian works with wonderful, committed anaesthesia providers around the world whose hard work often goes unnoticed. So we’re happy to introduce you to some of them through a new series we’re calling “Anaesthesia Champions.” In this first post, we asked Dr. Alhassan Datti Mohammed, from Nigeria, a few questions about his experiences. Dr. Datti works with the […]
What happens when you bring virtually every anesthesia provider from across Rwanda to the same place over two weeks for an intensive training course on obstetric anesthesia? The answer: New hope for the health of all new moms and babies (and, really, anyone needing surgery in the country). This past January, Gradian partnered with the […]
Below are links to 3 papers that persuasively argue for the inclusion of surgery and perioperative care among the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals. These papers all shed light on how improving (and, in some instances, creating access to) surgical and perioperative care is essential to addressing the many health- and economic-related challenges across developing countries. […]
We wanted to share a few photos from our trip this past November to Uganda, where we installed two new UAM’s and trained users on the machine. In partnership with GPAS (Global Partnership in Anesthesia and Surgery) and coordinated by Dr. Gerald Dubowitz, we visited two distinctly different hospitals– Soroti Regional Reference Hospital (a rural […]
Gradian has a new guest post that has been published on the Every Mother Counts blog (here). This non-profit organization was founded by maternal health advocate, Christy Turlington Burns, as way to increase awareness and education for maternal mortality reduction around the world. Through their powerful film, “No Women, No Cry,” and their work connecting women with all kinds […]
With so many fantastic blogs circulating on global health, there are not as many that specifically focus on safer global surgery. Here are some of our favorite “must-read” global surgery blogs: Global Health Innovation Blog – from Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health (@StanfordCIGH) Lifebox Blog – a wonderful blog focused on safe surgery (@safersurgery) TechSoup […]
Medical oxygen is essential to performing life-saving surgeries anywhere in the world. Unfortunately it is frequently in short-supply in many hospitals in low-income countries. This is perhaps not surprising: hospitals in the US and other wealthy countries manufacture their own pure oxygen and pipe it into ORs through the wall, while low-resourced hospitals for the most part […]
Our partners from the Johns Hopkins University Austere Anesthesia Health Outcome Research Group recently presented three posters on their work with Gradian’s UAM and medical devises in the developing world) at the International Assembly for Pediatric Anesthesia in Washington, D.C. on October 10-12. Poster Presentation: Designing Medical Devices for Austere Environments:The Role of Human Factors […]
