Global Surgery Academic Scholar (GSAS)

Do real work on a real problem, with people who publish.

The Global Surgery Academic Scholar Program places students, postdoctoral fellows, residents and early-career professionals on active projects across the United States and West Africa. Scholars are not observers: each owns a defined piece of a study, a quality-improvement cycle, a training curriculum or a health-systems analysis, and brings it to a deliverable: an abstract, a manuscript, a course that was taught, a dataset cleaned and analysed.

The program

How the program works

Who can apply

Undergraduate, medical, nursing, public health, biostatistics, health policy and data science students; PhD and postdoctoral researchers; residents and clinical fellows; and professionals within five years of their terminal degree. International applicants are welcome.

Commitment

At least 5 hours a week for 3 months. Scholars giving 10 or more hours a week for 6 months or longer have priority for stipend and travel.

Work

Clinical research and publication, health systems and infrastructure (oxygen, energy and the Health System Readiness Index), surgical education and curriculum, data science and the surgical registry, and health policy and financing. Every scholar works inside AMDana from the first day.

Where

Remote tracks are supervised from Columbia and Laurel, Maryland. Scholars on training and infrastructure tracks may travel to partner sites in Liberia and The Gambia.

Support

Selected scholars receive a stipend, decided on project scope, time commitment and available funding, administered by Healing Vessels International. Completion brings letters of recommendation from program leadership.

Affiliation

Work conducted through the JHU-GAPP partnership carries the institutional affiliation of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine.

Applying

About five minutes, two references with contact details, and a short statement. Decisions are rolling. Questions: scholar@athleticsmd.org.

Start the GSAS application globalsurgery.university

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