Salome Maswime

thumb|Salome_Maswime_on_Next_Einstein_Forum Salome Maswime is a South African clinician and global health expert. She is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and the Head of Global Surgery at the University of Cape Town. Quotes It is a new discipline in medicine which focuses on access to surgery and improving quality of care and outcomes. I like to describe it as the interface between surgical services and surgical systems. My research is working on improving perinatal outcomes and stillbirth auditing across Africa. In many countries, we don’t know what the real numbers are at the end of the day, so we have to start counting. More importantly though, the role of women in their societies can tell us a lot. Communities that protect their women seem to have better health outcomes. t's always the elephant in the room. When you walk into a room, and you don't see anyone that looks like you, sometimes you don't know if you are welcome or not. Luckily, i am comfortable with situations where I am minority. But I am very clear about what my expertise is. It is also a sense of pressure and responsibility because I often feel that if a wrong decision is made, I am not speaking just for me, but for many. Salome Maswime comments on representing Africa on Global Surgery External links Category:Living people Category:Women academics from South Africa Category:Women physicians from South Africa Category:Historians from South Africa Category:Surgeons