Global Surgery Priorities: A Response to Recent Commentaries.

We welcome the five published responses^1-5 to our editorial,⁶ which outlined a research agenda for making surgery accessible in low- and middle-income country settings, where it is most needed. The commentators represent a good mix of academics, researchers and advocacy specialists, which demonstrates the growing global commitment to working together in the ‘empirically evolving global surgery systems science.’³ There is considerable consensus in the messages, including the importance of collaborative research approaches, adapted to country contexts; a focus on district population needs; and the use of standardised routine data collection and evaluation methods. Here, we briefly touch on some important new perspectives and some diverging ones.