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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

Orbital and Eyelid Characteristics, Strabismus, and Intracranial Pressure Control in Apert Children Treated by Endoscopic Strip Craniectomy versus Fronto-Orbital Advancement.
Authors: Authors: Dohlman JC, Prabhu SP, Staffa SJ, Kanack MD, Mackinnon S, Warkad VU, Meara JG, Proctor MR, Dagi LR.
Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open
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A new approach to sustainable surgery: E-liability accounting for surgical health systems.
Authors: Authors: Forbes C, Raguveer V, Hey MT, Sana H, Naus A, Meara J, McClain C.
BMJ Glob Health
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Assessing the inclusion of children's surgical care in National Surgical, Obstetric and Anaesthesia Plans: a policy content analysis.
Authors: Authors: Wimmer S, Truche P, Guadagno E, Ameh E, Samad L, Makasa EMM, Greenberg S, Meara JG, van Dijk TH, Poenaru D.
BMJ Open
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Faith in Things Unseen : In Memoriam Paul Edward Farmer (1959-2022).
Authors: Authors: Meara JG.
World J Surg
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Large Vertex Encephaloceles: Management and Outcomes.
Authors: Authors: Schneider H, Cappitelli A, Langa OC, Goobie SM, Meara JG, Proctor M, Ganske IM.
J Craniofac Surg
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Estimating access to surgical care: A community centered national household survey from Pakistan.
Authors: Authors: Ashraf MN, Fatima I, Muhammad AA, Albutt K, Pigeolet M, Latif A, Meara JG, Samad L.
PLOS Glob Public Health
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Estimating the economic impact of interpersonal violence in Mexico in 2021: projecting three hypothetical scenarios for 2030.
Authors: Authors: Cervantes A, Jhunjhunwala R, Castañeda Alcántara ID, Elizundia Cisneros ME, Ringel R, Cortes Rodriguez A, Del Valle D, Hill S, Meara JG, Uribe-Leitz T.
Rev Panam Salud Publica
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Images in Pediatric Neurosurgery: Occult Intraosseous Dermoid Cyst at the Nasofrontal Junction.
Authors: Authors: Hori YS, Albanese JS, Meara JG, Proctor MR.
Pediatr Neurosurg
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Estimates of Treatable Deaths Within the First 20 Years of Life from Scaling Up Surgical Care at First-Level Hospitals in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
Authors: Authors: Sykes AG, Seyi-Olajide J, Ameh EA, Ozgediz D, Abbas A, Abib S, Ademuyiwa A, Ali A, Aziz TT, Chowdhury TK, Abdelhafeez H, Ignacio RC, Keller B, Klazura G, Kling K, Martin B, Philipo GS, Thangarajah H, Yap A, Meara JG, Bundy DAP, Jamison DT, Mock CN, Bickler SW.
World J Surg
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Defining Surgical Workforce Density Targets to Meet Child and Neonatal Mortality Rate Targets in the Age of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Global Cross-Sectional Study.
Authors: Authors: Truche P, Smith ER, Ademuyiwa A, Buda A, Nabukenya MT, Kaseje N, Ameh EA, Greenberg S, Evans F, Bickler S, Meara JG, Rice HE.
World J Surg
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