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Collaborations

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NOF’s collaboration models provide opportunities to further expand outreach services and help narrow gaps in global neurosurgery. Are you a neurosurgeon who wants to volunteer your time to advancing neurosurgical care in underserved communities around the world? Let’s talk! Reach out to us via email: info@neurosurgeroutreach.org
2026 SEED GRANT TO ESTABLISH A SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL NEUROSURGICAL COLLABORATION
  • A unique opportunity for a neurosurgeon from the USA to realize their global neurosurgical goal under a collaborative framework with NOF.

  • Background

  • There is a vast unmet need for the provision of essential neurosurgical services globally, with close to 15 million surgical cases estimated annually that are untreated. The burden of untreated neurosurgical disease is in low-middle-income countries, particularly in Africa and Southeast Asia.

  • Growing awareness of this unmet neurosurgical need has spurred a rise in neurosurgeons from high-income countries interested in participating in global neurosurgery. Establishing partnerships in global neurosurgery between sites or providers in high and communities in low-middle-income countries can be an effective way to build neurosurgical capacity to meet demand. Essential to a successful neurosurgical partnership is sustainability.

  • The Neurosurgery Outreach Foundation (NOF) has been engaged in global neurosurgery since 2010 by advancing neurosurgical care in underserved communities around the world through education, service, and support. It has experience in building successful and sustainable global neurosurgical partnerships. To promote the formation of more sustainable neurosurgical partnerships, NOF has established the Sustainable Collaboration Grant.

  • Grant Proposal Summary

  • The grant will be awarded to a practicing neurosurgeon from the US who proposes a new neurosurgical collaboration between high and low-middle-income country neurosurgeons and their facilities.

  • This collaboration should address problems related to the lack of access to neurosurgical treatment related to limitations in the local site’s capacity to administer neurosurgical care. The proposed collaboration should have plans that promote sustainability beyond the award period.

  • • $10,000
  • • Logistical support from NOF

  • Applications open June 1. Click here to apply.
SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL NEUROSURGICAL COLLABORATIONS
Dr. Heather Spader Ethiopia