The global surgery magazine · Since 2019
From Promise
to Practice.
Making Global Surgery Deliver
Every edition brings together evidence, experience and imagination from across the global surgery community. In 2026, we ask a sharper question: how do we turn international commitments into surgical care that reaches people?
Every story starts somewhere.
InciSe is InciSioN Global’s magazine: a meeting place for clinical knowledge, research, advocacy, creative work and the lived experiences behind surgical systems.
Our pages connect people across countries and disciplines, making space for emerging voices alongside established expertise, and asking what equitable surgical care looks like in practice.
From Promise to Practice
Making Global Surgery Deliver
Global surgery has gained visibility in international health policy. Yet recognition alone does not ensure that someone can obtain a safe operation, afford essential care, or recover with dignity. This edition explores what it takes to move from commitments and aspirations to financing, implementation, accountability and outcomes that matter to patients and communities.
Financing surgery
Sustainable health financing, affordability and financial protection for surgical care.
Systems under pressure
Workforce, infrastructure, essential services and health-system resilience in crises.
Proving progress
The evidence, implementation measures and accountability needed to show real change.
Voices shaping change
Locally led solutions, community experience and emerging leadership in surgical systems.
“The next chapter of global surgery should be defined not by what we promise, but by what we deliver.”
Two ways to shape the next issue.
Want to contribute to the publication itself, or join the team that brings the issue together? These are separate opportunities, with different routes to participation.
Editorial Team EOI
Bring your writing, editorial judgement, research, design or coordination skills to the production of InciSe 2026.
Article & creative submissions
Have a perspective, research insight, reflection or creative contribution aligned with the 2026 theme? Explore the separate submission route.
The people behind every page.
InciSe is shaped by contributors who turn ideas into thoughtful, credible and accessible editorial work. We invite expressions of interest from people who want to support the production of the 2026 issue.
The planned editorial cycle runs from November 2026 through January 2027. Applicants should consider the time they can realistically commit to editorial collaboration and feedback.
Your skills. Our shared story.
Where could you contribute?
Writing & editing
Structure, storytelling, language and careful editing.
Research & review
Evidence appraisal, references, fact-checking and accuracy.
Design & layout
Visual storytelling, typography and magazine composition.
Coordination
Timelines, author communication and collaborative delivery.
Three months. One publication.
A collaborative editorial process moves from planning to production and final review. These are broad stages, not individually guaranteed deadlines or assignments.
Plan & commission
Orientation, assignments and editorial planning.
Edit & develop
Revisions, source checks, editing and design.
Refine & finalise
Proofs, quality checks and final handover.
Ready to express your interest?
Send a brief email of no more than 400 words explaining how you could contribute to the InciSe 2026 editorial team. Please address all four points below.
Your motivation
Why InciSe? Name one global surgery or health-systems issue you care about.
Your skills & an example
Describe your strengths and preferred roles, and include one example of your work.
Your availability
Outline realistic weekly hours, known commitments and ability to meet feedback cycles.
Your details
Provide your full name, country and affiliation.
The link opens your email application with the recipient and subject prefilled.
The Editorial Team EOI is for helping to produce the magazine; it is not the article-submission form. Editorial recognition is subject to the campaign’s stated conditions.
A place for your perspective.
InciSe 2026 welcomes ideas that explore what it takes to turn global surgery commitments into practical progress. Our magazine has featured scientific and policy perspectives, opinion, personal reflections, National Working Group stories and creative work.
If you have a contribution in mind, review the form for the current submission instructions. This route is separate from applying to the editorial team.
From pages to movement.
From its earliest issues to the return of InciSe in 2023 and the new editorial ambitions of 2024 and 2025, the magazine has grown alongside a global community committed to better surgical care.
The historical visual is drawn from InciSioN’s InciSe campaign materials. Past editions are linked below.
Without Borders
InciSe 2025:
Surgery Without Borders
Where skill transcends geography, innovation defies limitations, and humanity guides every incision.
The edition includes scientific articles, opinion pieces, National Working Group stories, personal reflections, artwork and poetry, highlighting shared challenges and solutions across the global surgery community.
The stories that brought us here.
Explore the published editions that have documented developments, debate and creativity in global surgery through the years.
Support stories that move the field.
Supporting InciSe helps sustain a platform for research, reflection, creative expression and emerging voices in global surgery. We welcome conversations with organisations interested in advancing that mission.
Explore sponsorship opportunities or get in touch with InciSioN’s finance team.