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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

Surgical data strengthening in Ethiopia: results of a Kirkpatrick framework evaluation of a data quality intervention.
Authors: Authors: Bari S, Incorvia J, Iverson KR, Bekele A, Garringer K, Ahearn O, Drown L, Emiru AA, Burssa D, Workineh S, Sheferaw ED, Meara JG, Beyene A.
Glob Health Action
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Building safe surgery knowledge and capacity in Cambodia: a mixed-methods evaluation of an innovative training and mentorship intervention.
Authors: Authors: Bari S, Incorvia J, Ahearn O, Dara L, Sharma S, Varallo J, Smith V, Cainer M, Samphy C, Rathamony K, Kanora N, Dara V, Meara JG, Koy V, Alidina S.
Glob Health Action
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Surgery and universal health coverage: Designing an essential package for surgical care expansion and scale-up.
Authors: Authors: Reddy CL, Vervoort D, Meara JG, Atun R.
J Glob Health
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Assessment of diagnostics capacity in hospitals providing surgical care in two Latin American states.
Authors: Authors: Roa L, Moeller E, Fowler Z, Vaz Ferreira R, Mohar S, Uribe-Leitz T, Guilloux AGA, Mohar A, Riviello R, Meara JG, Souza JEDS, Macias V.
EClinicalMedicine
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Climate change: challenges and opportunities to scale up surgical, obstetric, and anaesthesia care globally.
Authors: Authors: Roa L, Velin L, Tudravu J, McClain CD, Bernstein A, Meara JG.
Lancet Planet Health
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Identifying essential components of surgical care delivery through quality improvement: An updated surgical assessment tool.
Authors: Authors: Lin Y, Raykar NP, Saluja S, Mukhopadhyay S, Sharma S, Frett B, Enumah S, Iverson KR, Johnson W, Meara JG, Shrime MG.
Int J Surg
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The Optimal Distribution of Surgery in Low- and MiddleIncome Countries: A Proposed Matrix for Determining Country-Level Organization of Surgical Services - A Response to the Recent Commentaries.
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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Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: An Opportunity to Improve Surgical Care and Advance Sustainable Development Globally.
Authors: Authors: Reddy CL, Patterson RH, Wasserman I, Meara JG, Afshar S.
Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am
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Investing in surgery: a value proposition for African leaders.
Authors: Authors: Jumbam DT, Reddy CL, Makasa E, Boatin AA, Rogo K, Chu KM, Nangombe B, Oladapo OT, Meara JG, Maswime S.
Lancet
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High-dose versus low-dose tranexamic acid for paediatric craniosynostosis surgery: a double-blind randomised controlled non-inferiority trial.
Authors: Authors: Goobie SM, Staffa SJ, Meara JG, Proctor MR, Tumolo M, Cangemi G, Disma N.
Br J Anaesth
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