UCT Global Surgery Division

We offer 3 postgraduate programmes in the Global Surgery Division: The MSc Global Surgery, PhD Global Surgery and the MPH Global Surgery Track. Submit your applications online for 2026.

A life transforming opportunity, Worth every penny. Please register and expand your capacity on transforming surgical care.

This is Africa's leading platform for equipping surgical leaders to address equity, access, and innovation where it's needed most. Applications closing soon: Monday, 16 February 2026. Apply today and take the next step in your Global Surgery journey: bit.ly/4pJKerN

A brilliant 25th @cosecsa annual scientific conference in 🇧🇮. Examining candidates; graduating fellows; meeting old & new friends. All whilst we push towards closing the human resource gap in Sub-Sahara to increase access to safe surgical care. Kudos local organizing Comm ABUC 🇧🇮

Training spaces like this matter because the region still has a serious shortage of surgeons. Sub Saharan Africa has fewer than two surgeons for every one hundred thousand people in many countries. When teams learn together and build skills, it helps close that gap and brings care closer to the communities that need it.

We had the second day of our Introduction to Global Surgery Workshop in Bujumbura as a COSECSA pre-conference workshop with the Burundi Surgical Society. A true collaboration to improve access to Surgert. With @MrsMaswime and @Spdpleroux @p_shins @mugishankoronko

We had the first day of our Introduction to Global Surgery Workshop in Bujumbura as a COSECSA pre-conference workshop with the Burundi Surgical Society. Convened by @MrsMaswime with @Spdpleroux @p_shins @mugishankoronko

We are hosting our Introduction to Global Surgery course in Burundi at the COSECSA Conference. Applications will close on Friday. Register form.jotform.com/242823756442561

We will be running an Introduction to Global Surgery course in Bujumbura on the 28 & 29 November. Register now to secure your space: form.jotform.com/242823756442561 @cosecsa @MrsMaswime @UCT_news

A thought-provoking virtual summit on Global Surgery as a Value. An incredible keynote by the Director-General of ECSA HC Dr Ntuli Kapologwe and a thought-provoking panel discussion on access to surgery!!! #Values20 #G20 @GlobalUCT

Join our Virtual Summit on Global Surgery as a Value. Register to attend: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #V20 #G20

We participated in the UCT School of Public Health Research Day Exhibition and highlighted access to surgery and strengthening surgical systems as a component of Public Health

We will be co-hosting a virtual Summit with the Values20 Group on Global Surgery as a Value, with Global leaders and experts including a keynote address by the Director-General of ECSA HC Dr Ntuli Kapologwe on Universal Access to Surgical Care #G20 #V20 #UHC

Happy Women’s Day 🌸

"We can channel students' enthusiasm into systems thinking to drive social change, to positively affect surgical outcomes." Dr. Oluchi Mbamalu @oluch1_nm at the Congress on Innovations in Global Surgery @icigs2025 in Malawi (the Warm Heart of Africa). @jogs_one @GlobalUct

Dr. Salome Masimwe @MrsMaswime, head of Global Surgery at the University of Cape Town @GlobalUct, discusses Innovations in Global Surgery @icigs2025 : "Social innovation is a community-engaged process linking social change to health improvement." @jogs_one #HealthcareHeroes

#POHERInnovate. South Africa 🇿🇦 CONGRATULATIONS @POHER_NGO scholars and alums for participating in their first hackathon hosted by University of Cape Town & @Harvard University! @shirley_dadson Patricia Wanjiru Dr Given Ndhlovu Dr Lindiwe Chilambe #innovators #hackathon

The Harvard UCT Hackathon is taking place at the Neurosciences Institute!!! Unlocking health systems solutions for a complex world!!!