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Funding for Global Surgical Programs

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Part of the book series: Success in Academic Surgery ((SIAS))

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Compared to other areas of global health, funding opportunities for surgery projects has been limited. With an increasing number of surgical faculty attempting to build academic careers in this area, lack of funding has been a source of great frustration. While it is likely that global surgery funding will increase in the future, it is still possible to obtain funding in the current environment provided that projects are designed well, have goals that align closely with donor’s priorities, and if one is persistent.

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  1. Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, Asante Three Rivers Medical Center, Grants Pass, OR, 97527, USA

    Megan Frost MD

  2. Division of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    T. Peter Kingham MD, FACS

  3. Surgical and Trauma Intensive Care Unit (STICU), Department of Acute Care Surgical Services, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23219, USA

    Paula Ferrada MD

  4. Division of Pediatric Surgery, Rady Children’s Hospital-University of California, San Diego, 3030 Children’s Way #107, San Diego, CA, 92123, USA

    Stephen W. Bickler MD, DTM&H

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Correspondence to Stephen W. Bickler MD, DTM&H .

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  1. Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Mamta Swaroop

  2. Oregon Health and Science Universit , PORTLAND, Oregon, USA

    Sanjay Krishnaswami

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Frost, M., Kingham, T.P., Ferrada, P., Bickler, S.W. (2016). Funding for Global Surgical Programs. In: Swaroop, M., Krishnaswami, S. (eds) Academic Global Surgery. Success in Academic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14298-2_10

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