Karina Nagin is the executive director at Mission: Restore, a nonprofit dedicated to training surgeons in developing countries. Previously, she worked at the Clinton Global Initiative, where she consulted corporate, philanthropic, nonprofit and government leaders. Karina was born and raised in Arkansas but somehow wound up in Brooklyn. https://www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls/contributor/karina-nagin/rss en Education Health Wed, 20 Sep 2017 08:56:03 +0000 Karina Nagin https://www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls/community/2017/09/20/a-gender-gap-with-a-deadly-cost-the-need-for-more-women-surgeons https://www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls/community/2017/09/20/a-gender-gap-with-a-deadly-cost-the-need-for-more-women-surgeons Five billion people worldwide are unable to access essential surgical care. To address this global health crisis, we need to encourage more women to step up to the operating table, says Karina Nagin, executive director of Mission: Restore.