GEMA Humanitarian Resource List 

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Inclusion of non GEMA/SAEM organizations in this list is not an endorsement of their activities or members

Last updated: December 7th, 2023

Primary Contributors: Michael Jaung, Anik Patel, Habab Iraqi, Mallika Manyapu, Brennan Bollman

Contact info for comments or additional suggestions: Michael Jaung

Please also visit the GEMA global emergency medicine resources for additional information

Humanitarian Relief Courses
  1. HELP (at various sites worldwide but course in Honolulu, HI is typically free)
  2. HRIC (Spring in Boston) 
  3. HHI edX
  4. Operational Research for Humanitarians (Coursera)  
  5. Global Health and Humanitarianism (HCRI)  
  6. Humanitarian Relief Operations  
  7. Sustainability in humanitarian action (FutureLearn) 

 

Non-Governmental Organizations (with opportunities to volunteer)
  1. Emergency (Italy)
  2. GRM (Global Response Management)
  3. International Committee of the Red Cross: ICRC
  4. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies: IFRC
  5. International Medical Corps: IMC
  6. International Rescue Committee: IRC
  7. Islamic Relief
  8. MDM (Medecins du Monde/Doctors of the World)
  9. MedGlobal
  10. Medical Volunteers International
  11. MSF USA/Int’l (Medecins sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders)
  12. NYC Medics
  13. Samaritan’s Purse
  14. Save the Children
  15. Syrian American Medical Society
  16. Team Rubicon
  17. The Safeguarding Health in Conflict coalition
  18. CARE International 
  19. BRAC 
  20. The Norwegian Refugee Council
  21. World Vision
  22. Catholic Relief Services
  23. Africa Humanitarian Action
  24. ForAfrika
  25. Humanitarian Emergency Response Africa
  26. Humanitarian African Relief Organization
  27. Convoy of Hope
  28. Partners in Health
  29. Edhi Welfare Organization
  30. Qatar Charity
  31. International Humanitarian City
  32. Humanity First
  33. Near East Foundation
USA Global Emergency Medicine Fellowships and Programs with Humanitarian Opportunities
  1. University of Alabama at Birmingham: IM Global Health Fellowship and Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Resource Limited Settings Fellowship
  2. Brown University: Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Studies at the Watson Institute
  3. Carolinas Medical Center: Team Rubicon
  4. Columbia University: Mailman School of Public Health Public Health and Humanitarian Action certificate program; Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)
  5. Harvard University (Brigham): Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; relationships with numerous NGO’s and flexibility to travel for humanitarian response with little notice
  6. Queen's University: numerous disaster and humanitarian certifications available
  7. University of California Davis: states aim for fellows to deploy with humanitarian organizations during fellowship
  8. University of Colorado: Team Rubicon and other
  9. University of Southern California: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)
  10. University of Washington: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)

*Note: Numerous additional fellowships note support for fellows to attend the above HELP and/or HRIC courses listed above

**Note: Numerous additional fellowships offer general support for fellows to participate in humanitarian response during fellowship without noting a specific organizational partnership. 

Journals
  • Conflict and Health
  • Disaster
  • Lancet Global Health
  • PLOS Global Health
  • Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
  • BMJ Global Health
Decolonization 
Useful Phone Apps
  • MSF Medical Guides
  • MSF DDH (Practice Guide to Humanitarian Law)
  • e-Pocketbook (WHO)
  • HSP (Sphere Guidelines)
  • SkinNTDs (WHO)
Global Health Educational Resources

Pediatric global health/emergency medicine:

Adult global health/emergency medicine:

Podcasts
  • New Humanitarian: email newsletter, podcast
  • Center for Humanitarian Health (Johns Hopkins): email newsletter
  • Everyday Emergency (MSF): podcast 
  • Displaced: podcast
  • Humanity in War (ICRC): podcast
  • World of Migration (Migration Policy Institute): podcast
  • Hold Your Fire (International Crisis Group)
Books

About MSF:

    • Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors without Borders (Bortolotti)
    • The Ends of the Earth (Kaplan)
    • Writing on the Edge: Great Contemporary Writers on the Frontline of Crisis
    • An Imperfect Offering (Orbinski)
    • Six Months in Sudan (Maskalyk)
    • Condemned to Repeat? (Terry)
    • The Politics of Fear (Hoffman and Au)

About Partners in Health and Paul Farmer:

    • Mountains beyond Mountains (Kidder)
    • Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds (Farmer)
    • Pathologies of Power (Farmer)

About Refugees/Migrants:

    • Violent Borders (Jones)
    • Refugee: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World (Betts and Collier)

About humanitarian work:

    • The White Man’s Burden (Easterly)
    • The Life You Can Save (Singer) ←also available as a free podcast/ebook in app store
    • A Problem from Hell (Power)
    • War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line (Nott)