International Family Study Archives - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

Meet the 2017 Operation Smile Research Fellows

Posted on March 8, 2017March 9, 2017

Part of an international collaboration between the USC Institute for Global Health, Operation Smile and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, the annual Operation Smile Research Fellowship offers scholars the opportunity to ass... read more →

02/14/17 – Progress & Innovation in Global Surgery

Posted on January 27, 2017August 21, 2018

In this lecture William Magee III, director of international programs at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, will discuss the progress and innovation making surgery safe and accessible around the world. (more…)... read more →

Meet Meghan McCullough, Tsao Global Surgery Fellow

Posted on November 10, 2016November 18, 2016

In her sophomore year as a pre-medical student at Harvard University, Meghan McCullough made a life-changing career decision: to train for a chance to make it to the Olympics or fulfill her ambition to become a doctor. Her c... read more →

The Global Surgery Partnership: An Innovative Partnership for Education, Research, and Service

Posted on August 20, 2015February 27, 2018

A new article in Academic Medicine explores a partnership between USC, Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Operation Smile to build oral cleft surgical capacity in resource-poor settings through education, research and servic... read more →

Genetic risk factors for orofacial clefts in Central Africans and Southeast Asians

Posted on August 6, 2014February 27, 2018

In partnership with the USC Institute for Global Health and the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Operation Smile, Inc., is investigating genetic and environmental factors in the etiology of clefts for its International Fami... read more →