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John G Meara, D.M.D., M.D.

Boston Children's Hospital Professor of Surgery in the Field of Pediatric Plastic Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital
Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
617-355-2313

John G. Meara, MD, DMD, MBA is the Director of the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, and Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Meara serves as the Plastic Surgeon-in-Chief of the Department of Plastic & Oral Surgery at Boston Children's Hospital.   He was Co-Chair for the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and was a commissioner on the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era, and the Lancet Oncology Commission.   He currently serves as a commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Diagnostics.  In 2008 he created the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship program. He is also interested in value-based health care and implementation science research, including time driven activity-based cost research and outcomes research.  Dr. Meara has led several ICHOM projects focusing on outcomes reporting and international benchmarking. 

Affiliations
Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital

Contact Information
Harvard Medical School
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
641 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Boston Children's Hospital
Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery

Assistant
Marshalee Bowens

Dr. Meara's interests and innovation activities lie in the areas of craniofacial anomalies, cleft lip and cleft palate, but he has a particular interest in augmenting the delivery of quality surgical and anesthesia care in low-resource settings through long term capacity building. He is involved in multiple global surgery projects looking at the burden of surgical disease, the surgical capacity and health systems building in low-resource environments, surgical education and the economic impact of untreated surgical disease. He is also interested in value based health care and implementation science research, including time driven activity based cost research and outcomes research. Dr. Meara has led several ICHOM projects focusing on outcomes reporting and international benchmarking. Since 2008, he has directed the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship program in collaboration with Partners In Health. Its purpose is to strengthen global surgical systems through a combination of research, advocacy, and implementation science as well as train leaders who will further promote surgical care, education, and research pertinent to global surgery.

Research Interests

Correction to: Global surgery and the World Health Organization: indispensable partners to achieve triple billion goals.
Authors: Authors: Reddy CL, Patterson RH, Caddell L, Gelb AW, Jumbam DT, Romanzi L, Wasserman I, Meara JG.
Can J Anaesth
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Effectiveness of a multicomponent safe surgery intervention on improving surgical quality in Tanzania's Lake Zone: protocol for a quasi-experimental study.
Authors: Authors: Alidina S, Kuchukhidze S, Menon G, Citron I, Lama TN, Meara J, Barash D, Hellar A, Kapologwe NA, Maina E, Reynolds C, Staffa SJ, Troxel A, Varghese A, Zurakowski D, Ulisubisya M, Maongezi S.
BMJ Open
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Unicoronal Synostosis.
Authors: Authors: Weng F, Meara JG, Dagi LR.
J Pediatr
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Framework for developing a national surgical, obstetric and anaesthesia plan.
Authors: Authors: Sonderman KA, Citron I, Mukhopadhyay S, Albutt K, Taylor K, Jumbam D, Iverson KR, Nthele M, Bekele A, Rwamasirabo E, Maongezi S, Steer ML, Riviello R, Johnson W, Meara JG.
BJS Open
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In reply: Clarifying surgery and anesthesia partnerships in response to global surgery and the World Health Organization.
Authors: Authors: Reddy CL, Caddell L, Gelb AW, Jumbam DT, Patterson RH, Romanzi L, Meara JG.
Can J Anaesth
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How Should We Decide Whether and When Some Care Is Better Than No Care?
Authors: Authors: Koch R, Meara JG, Wall AE.
AMA J Ethics
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Decentralization and Regionalization of Surgical Care: A Review of Evidence for the Optimal Distribution of Surgical Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
Authors: Authors: Iverson KR, Svensson E, Sonderman K, Barthélemy EJ, Citron I, Vaughan KA, Powell BL, Meara JG, Shrime MG.
Int J Health Policy Manag
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Surgery as a component of universal healthcare: Where is South Africa?
Authors: Authors: Reddy CL, Makasa EM, Biccard B, Smith M, Steyn E, Fieggen G, Maswime S, Meara JG, Chu K.
S Afr Med J
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Making all deaths after surgery count.
Authors: Authors: Meara JG, Leather AJM, Farmer PE.
Lancet
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Global surgery and the World Health Organization: indispensable partners to achieve triple billion goals.
Authors: Authors: Reddy CL, Patterson RH, Caddell L, Gelb AW, Jumbam DT, Romanzi L, Wasserman I, Meara JG.
Can J Anaesth
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