Greta Davis, MD, completed her medical degree at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and is a current integrated plastic surgery resident at UCSF. Originally from Wisconsin, her education and training have taken her to sites in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa where she has studied environmental determinants of health, surgical care delivery, and partnered with local ministries to analyze existing surgical systems to inform strategies for national surgical planning.

Her academic interests lie in global health monitoring and developing data ecosystems in low-income settings, with an emphasis on strengthening surgical systems and improving access to care. She has research experience in data simulation techniques aimed at reducing the burden of data collection at the national level. She has contributed to measuring global progress in surgical volume reporting to inform the World Bank’s surgical indicator data collection project, enhancing the global understanding of access to surgery and perioperative outcomes.

During her research years, she is completing a concurrent perioperative health equity fellowship with the UCSF Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia (CHESA) under the mentorship of Dr. John Rose (UCSF), and a global surgery fellowship with Operation Smile under the mentorship of Dr. William Magee III (USC). Through these fellowships, she strives to build relationships within the global surgical network to better realize the needs of partner countries; to understand the operational strategies required to impart change from the bottom up, starting with individual patients and culminating at ministry- and regional-level public health policies that impact their care; and to share lessons learned with the global surgery community through scholarship and advocacy.

She is continually seeking ways to further her understanding and skillset within the field of global surgery and plastic surgery, with a particular interest in pediatric cleft and craniofacial surgery.