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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

Implementation of The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery in India.
Authors: Authors: Raykar N, Mukhopadhyay S, Saluja S, Amte S, David S, Gnanaraj J, Kataria R, Jadhav B, Johnson W, Meara J, Menon N, Prabhu RD, Shetty D, Singh R, Tongaonkar R, Vora R, Roy N.
Healthc (Amst)
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Forced Labor in Surgical and Healthcare Supply Chains.
Authors: Authors: Sandler S, Sonderman K, Citron I, Bhutta M, Meara JG.
J Am Coll Surg
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USAID: Current support for global surgery and implications of reform.
Authors: Authors: Sonderman KA, Citron I, Albutt K, Salaam-Blyther T, Romanzi L, Meara JG.
Surgery
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World Health Organization: Leading surgical care toward sustainable development in the era of globalization.
Authors: Authors: Ljungman D, Vaughan KA, Park KB, Makasa EM, Marten R, Meara JG.
Surgery
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Moving forward the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery: The Karad Consensus Statement.
Authors: Authors: Raykar N, Meara J, Gawande A, Farmer P, Roy N.
Healthc (Amst)
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High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution.
Authors: Authors: Kruk ME, Gage AD, Arsenault C, Jordan K, Leslie HH, Roder-DeWan S, Adeyi O, Barker P, Daelmans B, Doubova SV, English M, Elorrio EG, Guanais F, Gureje O, Hirschhorn LR, Jiang L, Kelley E, Lemango ET, Liljestrand J, Malata A, Marchant T, Matsoso MP, Meara JG, Mohanan M, Ndiaye Y, Norheim OF, Reddy KS, Rowe AK, Salomon JA, Thapa G, Twum-Danso NAY, Pate M.
Lancet Glob Health
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Authors' Reply: Safe Surgery for All: Early Lessons from Implementing a National Government-Driven Surgical Plan in Ethiopia.
Authors: Authors: Iverson K, Citron I, Burssa D, Teshome A, Ahearn O, Ashengo T, Barash D, Barringer E, Garringer K, McKitrick V, Meara JG, Mengistu A, Mukhopadhyay S, Reynolds C, Shrime MG, Varghese A, Esseye S, Bekele A.
World J Surg
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Analysis of clinical outcomes for treatment of sagittal craniosynostosis: a comparison of endoscopic suturectomy and cranial vault remodeling.
Authors: Authors: Isaac KV, Meara JG, Proctor MR.
J Neurosurg Pediatr
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Surgical quality indicators in low-resource settings: A new evidence-based tool.
Authors: Authors: Citron I, Saluja S, Amundson J, Ferreira RV, Ljungman D, Alonso N, Moutinho V, Meara JG, Steer M.
Surgery
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Essential need for quality in surgical health-care systems.
Authors: Authors: Santhirapala V, Johnson WD, Meara JG.
Lancet
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