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Kemel A Ghotme

Jun 15, 2026

9:09
How did you end up building the community around you, the coalition that really helped get that through?
9:16
So I, I want to emphasize that it was a team effort, and it came from, uh, different places.
9:21
So in the US, GAPS BIF, the Global Alliance for Prevention of Spina Bifida, started making a call to action to the neurosurgical community.
9:31
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.
9:45
So the International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus were advocating from the patients' and families' sides.
9:52
So we had also civil society and the scientific community, some governments taking, uh, action, too.
10:02
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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16:56
What did Colombia do that other countries could replicate?

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