Emergency Medicine

Global Health

The Global Health Division has a worldwide impact through leadership and collaboration. We aim to strengthen acute care systems and increase education through academic partnerships within low resource settings.

We have developed and established teaching and training relationships with multiple international partner sites, including in Guatemala, Uganda, Rwanda, and Peru and have been awarded funding for our international research activities.

Current Projects

The Department of Emergency Medicine works with several partners around the globe to educate, build capacity, conduct research and provide clinical care. Over the past decade, residents and faculty from the department have been involved in several projects including: partnering with Addis Ababa School of Medicine to develop Emergency and Prehospital care, providing clinical care at Khayelitsha Hospital in South Africa, teaching ultrasound at University Central Hospital of Kigali in Rwanda, developing an Emergency Medicine Guidance mobile app in South Africa, investigating pediatric triage in Mbale, Uganda, and providing clinical care with the Indian Health Service in Gallup, New Mexico.

Our current, ongoing projects are focused within Africa and Central America:

Division Faculty

Jessica Schmidt, MD, MPH

Division Chief,
Global Health

Colleen Andrews, MD, MPH

 

Janis Tupesis, MD

 

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