Humanitarian Taskforce

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Co-Chairs: Vinay Kampalath and Rebecca Leff

We seek to promote ethical and sustainable research, practice, and education about critical issues facing populations facing forced displacement, conflict, and humanitarian disasters.

Initiatives
  • Advocating for humanitarian health in the academic medical center
  • Creating a community of practitioners, researchers, and trainees interested in emergency care in humanitarian settings
  • Disseminating evidence for emergency care in humanitarian settings, and promoting ethical research practices in insecure environments
  • Conducting a systematic review of humanitarian health literature
  • Promoting awareness of the use of responsible imagery in humanitarian settings

Humanitarian Resource List

Webinars:

 

Feb 21, 2023

 

Doctors Without Borders: A View From Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Dec 14, 2022