Suren Kanayan

William McCarthy is a lifelong learner, medical student in the global health concentration at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston McGovern Medical School and head of research and cofounder of Health In Your Hands. Olubukola Adelakun is a veterinary researcher and disease ecologist at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta. Cristina Salas is an MD/MPH candidate at the John Sealy School of Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

Kanayan, S. (2026). From Policy to Practice: Implementing Standard Operating Protocols to Strengthen Maternal and Neonatal Care in a Cambodian Tertiary Hospital. Journal of Cambodian Health, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.70243/jch2026.4102 Kruk, M. E., Gage, A. D., Arsenault, C., et al. (2018). High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: Time for a revolution. The Lancet Global Health, 6(11), e1196–e1252.

One morning in 2016, while working as the director of the obstetrics and gynecology department at a nonprofit hospital in rural Cambodia, I received a phone call from the maternity ward stating that a patient was in trouble. Although the woman had successfully delivered the baby, she had an extremely swollen labia major 90 minutes later, suggesting a second child was coming. I lived near the hospital and arrived within minutes.