Our team and partners

Our people

Interim Chair of Global Surgery

• Ruairi Brugha

Administrative Assistant

• Fergal O'Rourke

Programme Directors

• Eric O’Flynn (Education, Training and Advocacy)
• Jakub Gajewski (Research)
• Deirdre Mangaoang (Operations)

RCSI/COSECSA Collaboration Programme

• Lucia Brocato (Programme Manager)
• Godfrey Sama Philipo (Research and Patient Outcomes Coordinator)

Education Programmes

• Ines Perić (Education Programme Officer)

Research Programme Team

• Chiara Pittalis (Mixed-methods Research Specialist)
• Paul Okeny (StAR PhD Candidate)
• Celina Flocks Monaghan (Fulbright PhD Scholar)

Training Quality Platform

• Lawa Shaban 

We wish to acknowledge and thank the numerous volunteers and interns who contribute so much to the work of the RCSI Institute of Global Surgery.

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Our implementation partners

• Appropedia
• College of Anaesthesiologists for East, Central and Southern Africa (CANECSA)
• College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland (CAI)
• College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA)
• East, Central and Southern African Health Community (ECSA-HC)
• Hanoi Medical University
• Malawi Paediatric Trust
• Management Sciences for Health
• MIT Solve
• Nesta Challenges
• West African College of Surgeons (WACS)