Social Emergency Medicine and Population Health
The Social Emergency Medicine and Population Health (SEMPH) Interest Group explores how social factors like housing, food, and violence impact emergency care. It offers a forum for exchanging ideas on curriculum development and creating a research agenda to address these social influences in emergency medicine.
SEMPH Goals for 2024-2025 include:
- Serve as a central organizing point for emergency academicians interested in the interplay of the emergency care system and social forces affecting both patients and communities.
- Create a forum to foster high-quality research, education, and advocacy and translate this work into best practices for the application of social determinants of health at the bedside and beyond.
- Disseminate key advances in social EM and population health through development of consensus conferences and didactic sessions, collaboration with additional professional societies, and creation of web-based content.
Introducing the Social Emergency Medicine Integrated Network for Advancing Research (SEMINAR)
The SAEM SEMPH Interest Group is excited to announce the launch of a new research network, focused on health-related social needs in the emergency department. Learn more about SEMINAR here.
SEMPH Literature
Check out our comprehensive literature list, which compiles several resources across a wide variety of topics pertaining to social emergency medicine and population health, including alcohol use, firearm violence, housing and homelessness, immigration and documentation status, language and cultural barriers, mental health, and more.
Forms
Join Our Interest Group Today!
SAEM members wanting to explore social EM and population health are encouraged to join our interest group! Log into SAEM.org, click "My Participation" in the upper navigation bar, and click the "Update Academies or Interest Groups" button to join now.