Dr. Issy Marks is an academic Foundation Doctor in North West London. She previously worked as a paediatric surgical outcomes fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a research associate with the Program for Global Surgery and Social Change at Boston Children’s Hospital. Issy coordinated the International Federation of Medical Students' Association (IFMSA's) Global Surgery Working Group for two years, and was a founding member and leader of InciSioN, the International Student Surgical Network, for which she now leads the board of trustees. Issy also worked as WHO policy officer in the UK Department of Health’s International Team and has worked on paediatric surgical research projects in Kenya and Nicaragua.