Joshua Korn

Joshua Korn, is the head of partnerships and impact for CURE International. Previously he served as the executive director of the CURE International hospital in Niger, West Africa. CURE International operates a network of pediatric surgical hospitals in LMICs, providing care to children with treatable conditions.

A Syrian physical therapist with a prosthetic leg, wearing blue scrubs and gesturing compassionately talks to a patient, who also has a prosthetic leg at the Al-Bab Center for prosthetics. Both men are sitting in chairs talking eye-to-eye.
Governance

The Power of Health Information for People with Disabilities

by Joshua Korn, Becca Brunner-Caple, Cynthia Bauer, Jessica Charles

Knowledge gaps, data deficits, and stigma have stalled access to health information and care

Nigerian surgeons in blue gowns and masks operate on a patient hidden beneath a blue sheet under a large surgical lamp in a room with blue walls.
Governance

Five Billion Reasons for Ramping Up Global Surgery

by Joshua Korn, Natalie Sheneman, Laura Hoemeke

Creating surgical and anesthesia capacity is a win for pandemic preparedness

A boy, suffering from an extensive burn injury, holds a pencil to write during a lesson inside his the classroom at a primary school in Zhuanji town, Anhui province, China, on November 15, 2011.
Poverty

A Burning Issue

by Laura Hoemeke, Joshua Korn, Natalie Meyers, Kiran Nakarmi

Every three seconds, someone around the world requires medical attention for burns