Dr Laëlle Mangurat recently got her Master’s degree in Public health (MPH) from the University of South Florida and has after that returned to her native Haïti to continue working as a general surgeon. In Port-au-Prince she has held positions as lecturer and clinical instructor at the Université d’État d’Haïti while working in different places of the country, among them Hôpital MSF Tabarre, the capital’s most important trauma center. Laëlle is a member of the Haitian Association of Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons and has done research with Harvard’s Program in Global Surgery and Social Change and published accordingly. She has a great future as a female surgical leader from a Low and Middle Income Country before her.