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A Financing Strategy to Expand Surgical Health Care

Desmond T. Jumbam, Che L. Reddy, John G. Meara, Emmanuel M. Makasa and Rifat Atun
Global Health: Science and Practice June 2023, 11(3):e2100295; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00295
Desmond T. Jumbam
aDepartment of Policy and Advocacy, Operation Smile, Virginia Beach, VA, USA.
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Che L. Reddy
bProgram in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
cDepartment of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
dHealth Systems Innovation Lab, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
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  • For correspondence: chelen_reddy{at}hms.harvard.edu
John G. Meara
bProgram in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
cDepartment of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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Emmanuel M. Makasa
eWits Centre of Surgical Care for Primary Health and Sustainable Development, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Rifat Atun
dHealth Systems Innovation Lab, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
fDepartment of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
gDepartment of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
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vol. 11 no. 3 e2100295
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00295
PubMed 
37348937

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Global Health: Science and Practice
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2169-575X
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  • Received: April 16, 2021
  • Accepted: March 28, 2023
  • Published online June 21, 2023.

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  1. Desmond T. Jumbama,*,
  2. Che L. Reddyb,c,d,*⇑,
  3. John G. Mearab,c,
  4. Emmanuel M. Makasae,
  5. Rifat Atund,f,g
  1. aDepartment of Policy and Advocacy, Operation Smile, Virginia Beach, VA, USA.
  2. bProgram in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  3. cDepartment of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
  4. dHealth Systems Innovation Lab, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
  5. eWits Centre of Surgical Care for Primary Health and Sustainable Development, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  6. fDepartment of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  7. gDepartment of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
  1. Correspondence to Ché L. Reddy (chelen_reddy{at}hms.harvard.edu).
  1. ↵* Co-first authors.

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