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Editor-in-Chief


Dr Mark Shrime is a Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Clinically, he specialises in treating head and neck tumors, working with Mercy Ships. His academic pursuits focus on decision-making and surgical delivery in low- and middle-income countries, with a specific interest in the intersection of health, impoverishment, inequity, and global development.
Senior Editors
Dr Helen Surana
Dr Naomi Lee
Dr Fiona Godlee
Associate editors
Dr Barnabas Alayande, MBBS, MBA, PgDTh, FMCS, FICS, FRRHHEd, FACS
Center for Equity in Global Surgery, University of Global Health Equity
Kigali, Rwanda
Specialty: Global Surgery, General Surgery
orcid.org/0000-0002-1326-6452
Dr Emmanuella Amoako, MD
Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, University of Cape Coast
Cape Coast, Ghana
Specialty: Global Health, Paediatrics, Oncology
orcid.org/0000-0002-2965-7597
Dr Edwine Barasa, PhD
KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
Nairobi, Kenya
orcid.org/0000-0001-5793-7177
Dr Soumitra Bhuyan, PhD, MPH
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Specialty: eHealth
orcid.org/0000-0002-7247-4438
Dr Seema Biswas
Royal Holloway University of London
London, UK
orcid.org/0000-0003-2657-9818
Dr Vijay Kumar Chattu, MD, MPH, MPhil
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Global Institute of Public Health
Kerala, India
Specialty: Health Policy
orcid.org/0000-0001-9840-8335
Dr Alberto Garcia-Basteiro, MD, MSc, PhD
Centro de Investigação em Saude de Manhiça
Maputo, Mozambique
Specialty: Clinical Epidemiology
orcid.org/0000-0002-2038-5505
Professor Chris Guure
University of Ghana
Accra, Ghana
Specialty: Biostatistics, epidemiology, public health
orcid.org/0000-0001-6595-9587
Dr Walter Johnson, MD, MBA, MPH
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, CA, USA
Specialty: Global Health, Global Surgery, Health Policy
orcid.org/0000-0003-2815-2754
Mr Desmond Tanko Jumbam, MSc, MBA
Operation Smile
Granger, USA
Specialty: Global Surgery, Health Policy, Advocacy, Health Financing
orcid.org/0000-0002-3062-2519
Dr John Tayu Lee
Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
Speciality: Health Economics; Health Systems; Machine Learning
orcid.org/0000-0002-1551-4923
Associate Professor Zhanming Liang, PhD, MSc, MBBS, FACHSM
James Cook University
Townsville, Australia
Speciality: Health Leadership and Management
orcid.org/0000-0002-8022-4017












Assistant Professor Elisa M Maffioli, PhD
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Speciality: Economics, Public Health
orcid.org/0000-0003-3303-7945
Dr Manasee Mishra, MA, PhD
Parul Institute of Public Health, Parul University
Vadodara, India
Speciality: Qualitative Research, Intersectionality, Health Systems
orcid.org/0000-0002-9923-3976
Dr Luca Nelli
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, UK
Speciality: Geospatial Modelling
orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-4072
Ms. Amalia Postier, Msc
University of North Carolina
Durham, NC, USA
Specialty: Surgery in Low-Resourced Settings, Infectious Disease, Workforce Development, Health Literacy, Health Behavior/Decision-Making, Patient Experience/Patient Reported Outcomes
Dr. Yashi Aman Raj
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Mumbai, India
Specialty: Mathematical Modelling, Dynamical Systems, Tuberculosis, HIV
Associate Professor Gang Qin, MD, PhD
Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University
Nantong, China
Specialty: Infectious diseases, clinical epidemiology, health economics
orcid.org/0000-0002-4363-2572
Professor Henry Rice, MD
Duke University, Duke Global Health Institute
Durham, NC, USA
Specialty: Global surgery, health economics, pediatric surgery
orcid.org/0000-0001-8033-6687
Dr Valéry Ridde, PhD
IRD, CEPED, Universités Paris Sorbonne Cités
Paris, France
Specialty: Implementation Science
orcid.org/0000-0001-9299-8266
Dr Kerry Scott, MSc, PhD
York University
Toronto, Canada
Specialty: Health Systems
orcid.org/0000-0003-3597-9637
Associate Professor Lei Si, PhD
Western Sydney University
Sydney, Australia
Specialty: Health Economics
orcid.org/0000-0002-3044-170X
Associate Professor Sean Sylvia, PhD
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, USA
Specialty: Causal Inference, Economics, Digital Health
orcid.org/0000-0002-9508-247X
Dr Mathuros Tipayamongkholgul, PhD
Mahidol University
Nakhon Prathom Thailand
Specialty: Health systems, global health, epidemiology
orcid.org/0000-0002-2585-1659










Blog and social media editors
Dr Neha Faruqui, PhD
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Specialty: Health Systems
Editorial advisory board members
Irene Agyepong
University of Ghana
Accra, Ghana
Joseph Ana
Cross River University of Technology
Calabar, Nigeria
Edwine Barasa
KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
Nairobi, Kenya
Narayanan Devadasan
Institute of Public Health
Bangalore, India
Gabrielle Fitzgerald
Independent Global Health Consultant
Seattle, WA, USA
Varun Gauri
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
Asha George
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
Eduardo Gómez
King's College London
London, UK
Peter S Hill
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
John G Meara
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
Sharmila Mhatre
Open Society Foundations
New York, NY, USA
Sassy Molyneux
Oxford University and KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
Kilifi, Kenya
Lyda Osorio
Universidad del Valle
Cali, Colombia
Gorik Ooms
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, UK
Madhukar Pai
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
Walaiporn Patcharanarumol
International Health Policy Program
Bangkok, Thailand
Muhammad Ali Pate
Duke Global Health Institute
Durham, NC, USA
Anushka Patel
The George Institute for Global Health
Sydney, Australia
Sanne Peters
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Stefan Peterson
Uppsala University
Uppsala, Sweden
Peter Rabinowitz
University of Washington
Washington, USA
Eugene T Richardson
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
Senjuti Saha
Child Health Research Foundation
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Arthy Santhakumar
British Medical Association
London, UK
Kabir Sheikh
Public Health Foundation of India
New Delhi, India
Annie Sparrow
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY, USA
Stephanie Topp
James Cook University
Townsville, Australia
Wim van Damme
Institute of Tropical Medicine
Antwerp, Belgium
Sanni Yaya
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada
Maria Victoria Zunzunegui
University of Montreal
Montreal, Canada
Supplements editors
Smruti Patel
Paul J Simpson
Emma Veitch
Publishing Team
Publishing Assistant: Simran Kang
Publisher: Alice Shuttleworth
Head of Portfolio: Richard Sands