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Jun 15, 2026
How one surgeon changed global health policy, with Dr Kemel Ghotme
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Paul NewnhamHOST
How did you end up building the community around you, the coalition that really helped get that through?

Kemel GhotmeGUEST
So I, I want to emphasize that it was a team effort, and it came from, uh, different places.

Kemel GhotmeGUEST
So in the US, GAPS BIF, the Global Alliance for Prevention of Spina Bifida, started making a call to action to the neurosurgical community.

Kemel GhotmeGUEST
In the meantime, I was doing my doctoral research at George Washington University in devising a knowledge transfer toolkit to get the knowledge to the decision-makers in Latin America.

Kemel GhotmeGUEST
So the International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus were advocating from the patients' and families' sides.

Kemel GhotmeGUEST
So we had also civil society and the scientific community, some governments taking, uh, action, too.

Kemel GhotmeGUEST
So with the result of my doctoral research, we was-- which was exactly how to overcome the barriers and how to leverage the facilitators to, to get that knowledge.
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