Dear Colleague,

We would like to invite you to the Gastrosummit (METAP-CIS) Association, set up with a vision of building regional equality in the field of Gastroenterology.

Medicine today represents a regional hierarchical structure; both the content of the congresses organized and the shares of the speakers, as well as the countries where the publications with high impact factors originate, are located in the developing countries so-called Global North. Although resources allocated to science have increased significantly in recent years and access to all types of publications or sophisticated diagnostic and treatment tools has become easier in the Global South, Global North-based institutions and journals continue to dominate medicine.