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Five billion people lack access to safe, affordable, and timely surgical care; this is in part driven by severe shortages in the global surgical workforce. Task shifting is commonly implemented to expand the surgical workforce. A more complete understanding of the global distribution and use of surgical, obstetric, and anesthetic task shifting is lacking in the literature. We aimed to document the...