Research Student & General Surgery Registrar

Research group: International Health Systems, Health Systems Design
Telephone: +44 1223 748569
Email: mb2583 @cam.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Michael Bath is a doctoral research student at the Engineering Design Centre, within the International Health Systems Group. His research focuses on better understanding trauma care provision worldwide and developing trauma systems in resource-limited settings.

He works as a General Surgery Registrar in London, UK. Having completed his undergraduate medical degree at the University of Leicester, he has since worked as an Academic Clinical Fellow in Surgery at Queen Mary University of London, completing his Masters Degree in Clinical Research.

He was the lead researcher for the GOAL-Trauma study, an international multi-centre observational study that collected data on 1769 patients in 187 hospitals across 51 countries. He has presented his work on Global Surgery at a side session to the World Health Assembly and acts as a reviewer for multiple peer-review journals, including the British Medical Journal.

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Key Publications

Bath MF, GOAL-Trauma Collaborative; Global variation in patient factors, interventions, and postoperative outcomes for those undergoing trauma laparotomy: an international, prospective, observational cohort study, Lancet Global Health, 2025

Bath M, Bashford T, Fitzgerald JE, What is ‘global surgery’? Defining the multidisciplinary interface between surgery, anaesthesia and public health, BMJ Global Health, 2019; 4(5):e001808 

Bath MF,  L Hobbs, et al., Does the Implementation of a Trauma System Affect Injury-Related Morbidity? A Systematic Review. Emergency Medicine Journal, 2024,; 41:409–14

Bath MF, Schloer J et al., Trends in Pre-hospital Volume Resuscitation of Blunt Trauma Patients: A 15- Year Analysis of the British (TARN) and German (TraumaRegister DGU®) National Registries. Critical Care, 2024 15;28(1):81

Bath MF, Bashford T, GOAL‐Trauma Collaborative; The trauma laparotomy - A key procedure that lacks global data, World Journal of Surgery, 2024. 48(5):1001-1003