Matthew T. Hey

Matthew T. Hey is currently an MD candidate in Florida, a visiting graduate student at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, and a Global SOTA Fellow at the Global (G4) Alliance for Surgical Obstetric, Trauma, and Anesthesia Care.

Four older patients dressed in medical gowns cover their eyes as they wait for cataract surgery on the Lifeline Express, a hospital built inside a seven-coach train, at a railway station in Jalore, India, on March 31, 2018.
Governance

A Lot of Talk but No Seat at the Table

by Anam N. Ehsan, Matthew T. Hey, Sarah K. Hill, Rashi Jhunjhunwala, Kee B. Park

Surgery at the World Health Assembly 

A man from the Yanomamy tribe waits for his surgery at the surgical center at the Cartucho community during a medical expedition in Santa Izabel do Rio Negro, in Amazonas state in northern Brazil, November 8, 2010.
Environment

Climate Change and Global Surgery

by Matthew T. Hey, Ifeoluwa Shoyombo, Elizabeth F. Yates, Geoffrey A. Anderson

Access to surgical care doesn't have to harm the environment and future generations

People waiting for treatment at a hospital after undergoing cataract removals from a free but shoddy eye surgery camp that caused them to lose their vision—in Amritsar, India, on December 5, 2014. The photo shows several people sitting on hospital beds. One man in the foreground is wearing dark glasses. REUTERS/Munish Sharma
Poverty

The WHO's Unheralded Role in Surgery

by Laura Hoemeke, Natalie Sheneman, Matthew T. Hey, Megan E. Bouchard

Why does the WHO matter? Its global health coordination makes surgical care more affordable and effective for everyone