COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GLOBAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE FELLOWSHIP

Each Fellow conducts approximately six months of fieldwork over two years, working 796 - 846 hours per year as an Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP)/ Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) /Allen Hospital Emergency Department (ED). The NYP/CUIMC ED serves a predominantly low-income, underserved community in Washington Heights in northern Manhattan. Also, it serves as the ED for CUIMC, a major medical center providing tertiary healthcare services to the New York Tri-State area. It is one of two primary NYP Emergency Medicine Residency Program teaching sites. The Allen Hospital is NYP's community hospital in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan. Adult and pediatric patients can receive care from the same faculty at this site as at CUMC. In addition to understanding approaches to global public health systems, our fellows gain rich experience in humanitarian, disaster, and conflict-affected settings and the response to epidemic outbreaks. Fellows have been placed in MSF, IRC, WHO, IMC, and UNICEF organizations. Recent fellows' fieldwork includes the following recent illustrative examples:

Recent Partnerships with Ministries of Health (MoH) on Health System Strengthening

• sidHARTe – Strengthening Emergency Systems Ghana Program started in 2008.
• The current partnership with the USAID-funded Developing Acute Care and Emergency Referral Systems (ACERS) Consortium Emergency Maternal and Neonatal Care (EmONC) program in rural Ghana.
• Drs. Brennan Bollman and Alex Sloboda supported the implementation research on data collection and use regarding integrating rural district-level Emergency Dispatch Centers under the Ghana Ministry of Health’s (MoH) Ghana Health Service and National Ambulance Service.
• sidHARTe Rwanda Program - Since 2011, the Global EM fellows have supported our sidHARTe program effort on health systems strengthening under the direction of the Rwanda MoH.
• Drs. Charlotte Roy, Brennan Bollman, and Dr. William Bruno, the Emergency Medicine residency at The University Teaching Hospital in Kigali (CHUK) in 2021 and 2022.
• Dr. Abubakarr Bangura works under the MoH with Sierra Leone Partners in Health (PIH).
• Dr. Bangura will conduct an emergency care assessment (WHO ECO HEAT) of 17 government secondary and tertiary government health facilities in rural and urban settings in partnership with the WHO. 2022

Recent Humanitarian Action Partnerships

• Dr. Sabena Vaswani class ’2024, is currently working in Delhi, India, working with IPAS on long-term contraception program planning in underserved communities in rural India.
• Dr. Kevin Molyneux, class ’2024, is working with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Ciudad Juárez with the migrants and asylum seekers fleeing violence. He is working on addressing the sexual and reproductive health needs of migrants staying in shelters.
• Dr. William Bruno is with MSF in Cox’s Bazar district on Bangladesh's southeast coast and has hosted Rohingya refugees fleeing targeted violence in neighboring Myanmar's Rakhine State. Dr. Bruno will be in Cox’s Bazar for 9 months in 2023.
• Drs. Kristie Hadley and William Bruno conducted direct clinical service delivery with Medical Teams International for Ukrainian refugees in Moldova in the summer of 2022.
• Dr. Charlotte Roy worked with MSF in conflict-affected Tigray, Ethiopia providing clinical support to fixed and mobile clinics in Shire, Ethiopia. 2021
• Dr. Brennan Bolman worked with Peru's MSF COVID-19 pandemic response during the outbreak's peak. 2021
• Dr. Charlotte Roy worked with MSF in conflict-affected Tigray, Ethiopia providing clinical support to fixed and mobile clinics in Shire, Ethiopia. 2021
• Dr. Brennan Bolman worked with Peru's MSF COVID-19 pandemic response during the outbreak's peak. 2021

1. Letter of Interest: Why are you interested in OUR Fellowship? Please be specific about why Columbia University.

2. Personal Statement (one page): Including fellowship goals, implementation/research interests, and post-fellowship goals.

3. Curriculum Vitae: Please include email and mobile phone number.

4. Three Letters of Reference (LoR): Kindly ask your letter writers to do the following:

·       TWO LoRs: (one from PD) on your clinical abilities, personality (how you interact with people professionally), and how you navigate complexity. This can include research, teaching, service, or advocacy work. Please ask them to AVOID focusing on your global/local 'Glocal' work

·       THIRD LoR: Please include your 'Glocal' research, program implementation, advocacy or activism by someone more connected with your work in this space.

We seek applicants who embrace and reflect diversity in the broadest sense. Columbia University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. 

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Rachel T. Moresky, Columbia University Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director or Medical Education Coordinator Ms. Aileen Ruiz Mendez.

Selected fellows must also apply separately to the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health by January 15 through the Schools of Public Health Application Service (SOPHAS).