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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

Columbia SIPA Journal of International Affairs
Authors: Authors: Meara JG, Till B
The Revolution That Global Health Security Needs
Editors
Authors: Authors: Rahbar R, Rodriguez-Galindo C, Meara JG, Smith ER, Perez-Atayde AR
Pediatric Head and Neck Tumors: A-Z Guide to Presentation and Multimodality Management
From blockchain technology to global health equity: can cryptocurrencies finance universal health coverage?
Authors: Authors: Till BM, Peters AW, Afshar S, Meara J
BMJ Glob Health
In: Cheney M, Hadlock T
Authors: Authors: Rogers CR, Meara JG
Facial Surgery: Plastic and Reconstructive
Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to implement and evaluate national surgical planning
Authors: Authors: Saluja S, Silverstein A, Mukhopadhyay S, Lin Y, Raykar N, Keshavjee S, Samad L, Meara JG
BMJ Glob Health
In: Cheney M, Hadlock T
Authors: Authors: Kim DC, Holmes AD, Meara JG
Facial Surgery: Plastic and Reconstructive
Foreign Affairs
Authors: Authors: Till BM, Afshar S, Peters AW, Meara JG
Blockchain and Global Health How the Technology Could Cut Waste and Reduce Fraud
In: Bluestone CD, Healty GB, Simons JP, et al., eds
Authors: Authors: Fattah A, Meara JG, Britto JA
Pediatric Otolaryngology
The Conversation
Authors: Authors: Ljungman D, Meara JG, Lin Y
Suturing a divided world: How providing access to surgery drives global prosperity
In: Rahbar R, Rodriguez-Galindo C, Meara JG, Smith ER, Perez-Atayde AR Eds
Authors: Authors: Kieran S, Meara JG, Proctor M, Rahbar R
Pediatric Head and Neck Tumors: A-Z Guide to Presentation and Multimodality Management