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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GLOBAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE FELLOWSHIP
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The CU Global EM Fellowship has a history of training emergency physician educators, implementors, and researchers to decrease health disparities for vulnerable populations in settings with limited health resources. We approach these challenges through data-driven social determinants of health (social EM) approach to ensure health equity and justice. We produce global health leaders who approach public health problem-solving using mixed methods, implementation science to impact the global health system strengthening and humanitarian programs, effective advocacy, and impact policy.
The CU Global EMF is a two-year program that combines in-depth clinical and public health work in low-health-resource settings. Fellows enroll in a Master of Public Health (MPH) in the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health (Pop Fam), under the Forced Migration and Health program. It enables fellows to:
- Obtain the Public Health and Humanitarian Action (PHHA) Certificate (Choose Pop Fam and PHHA certificate to see the 2-year curriculum)
- Contribute to the Columbia University sidHARTe - Strengthening Emergency Systems Program through partnerships with governments (currently Ghana & Rwanda), universities, and local organizations to ensure timely, integrated, adaptive health systems strengthening throughout an effectively linked continuum of care.
Fellowship Experience
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
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Fellowship Curriculum
Projects
Project Name & Description | Details |
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sidHARTe - Strengthening Emergency Systems Program |
sidHARTe partners to provide timely, accessible, high-quality acute care systems in resource limited settings worldwide
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Acute Care and Emergency Referral Systems (ACERS) Project in Rural Ghana |
ACERS is a three-year, USAID-funded implementation research and capacity-building project that aims to contribute to the improvement in maternal and newborn outcomes.
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sidHARTe and HRH Rwanda Emergency Care Systems Program |
Since 2011 the Global EM fellows have supported our sidHARTe program effort on health systems strengthening under the direction of the Rwanda Ministry of Health (MoH).
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Alumni
![Columbia_WongHayes Hayes Wong](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_wonghayesbc62328e-0147-4997-895a-e472104391ea.png?sfvrsn=299b59c3_1)
Hayes Wong
2018![Columbia_TaubmanCara Cara Taubman](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_taubmancara589c8fac-e3f7-4e47-9585-a05538654210.jpg?sfvrsn=c7cd897a_1)
Cara Taubman
2016![Columbia_HultgrenAaron Aaron Hultgren](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_hultgrenaaronba26cff0-f81c-4267-a3a4-abf99549ccb0.jpg?sfvrsn=c71af050_1)
Aaron Hultgren
2012![Columbia_BollmanEBrennan Brennan Bollman](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_bollmanebrennan7f75f7b2-1fc7-4a1a-a15b-bb6e8f615761.jpg?sfvrsn=f4489487_1)
E. Brennan Bollman
2021![Columbia_SlobodaAlexander Alexander Sloboda](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_slobodaalexanderee8aa71c-c137-4cda-ad10-5e39e284ffbd.jpg?sfvrsn=d01c5d40_1)
Alexander Sloboda
2022![Columbia_HeldermanTrina Trina Helderman](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_heldermantrina362b322c-d1db-447a-8888-eee34c25c788.jpg?sfvrsn=956ff864_1)
Trina Helderman
2009![Columbia_KuahSolomon Solomon Kuah](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_kuahsolomon89590f11-71ae-49dd-9160-89d36a5615d4.jpg?sfvrsn=b379aa14_1)
Solomon Kuah
2008![Columbia_TanTim Tim Tan](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_tantim.jpg?sfvrsn=14e3949c_1)
Tim Tan
2014![Columbia_LeeJonathan Jonathan Lee](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_leejonathan.jpg?sfvrsn=c350b41c_1)
Jonathan Lee
2017![Columbia_RoyCharlotte Charlotte Roy](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_roycharlotte1f809199-12d1-4224-8b1e-83c8b26eaba8.jpg?sfvrsn=f4d7e2a3_1)
Charlotte Roy
2021![Columbia_ChoiMary Mary Choi](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_choimary3b42e773-f199-46ac-98bf-28f501eb2ba3.png?sfvrsn=bcc03804_1)
Mary Choi
2011![Columbia_KaufmanBen Ben Kaufman](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_kaufmanben.jpg?sfvrsn=bae9141c_1)
Ben Kaufman
2020![Columbia_Chisolm-StrakerMakini Makini Chisolm-Straker](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_chisolm-strakermakinicc8fe54e-eea6-4af4-902b-cee5be7cb95a.jpg?sfvrsn=fa333f19_1)
Makini Chisolm-Straker, MD, MPH
2015![Columbia_ThomasDeepti Deepti Thomas](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_thomasdeepti55cd97d0-1fa5-4060-9c75-edb58ddd812e.jpg?sfvrsn=2f395a9e_1)
Deepti Thomas
2008![Columbia_FirewTsion Tsion Firew](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_firewtsion.jpg?sfvrsn=7abfc9f9_1)
Tsion Firew
2017![Columbia_SpencerCraig Craig Spencer](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_spencercraig.jpg?sfvrsn=56b66107_1)
Craig Spencer
2013![Columbia_NtabaDziwe Dziwe Ntaba](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_ntabadziwef239044f-4584-459e-b325-0218669f8f9c.jpg?sfvrsn=56c17a72_1)
Dziwe Ntaba
2013![Eric_Cione_Pena Eric_Cione_Pena](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/headshots/eric_cione_pena.jpeg?sfvrsn=919dbf4b_0)
Eric Cioe Pena
2015![Columbia_GreenAlyssa Alyssa Green](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_greenalyssa393cc4c8-d758-4ad5-bf49-c14a1cecd8f0.png?sfvrsn=4295f697_1)
Alyssa Green
2019![Columbia_TennerAndrea Andrea Tenner](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_tennerandrea.jpg?sfvrsn=36adb98_3)
Andrea Tenner
2012![Columbia_KinyonJeffrey Jeffrey Kinyon](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_kinyonjeffrey689fb55a-10eb-4901-9cd8-cd8ff65c4758.jpg?sfvrsn=22c9cece_1)
Jeffrey Kinyon
2010![shama patel](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/headshots/shama-patel.jpg?sfvrsn=9d6ca77d_0)
Shama Patel
2019![Columbia_CohenHillary Hillary Cohen](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_cohenhillary.jpg?sfvrsn=eb3df610_1)
Hillary Cohen
2008![Columbia_StokesSonya Sonya Stokes](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_stokessonyac640afdd-6359-48b0-9fc9-d9e1df99ea07.jpg?sfvrsn=2c7ae28_1)
Sonya Stokes
2018![Columbia_DeppTimothy](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_depptimothy86238063-dec2-40c3-af1d-438444fa10b5.jpg?sfvrsn=6851a5f4_1)
Timothy Depp
2020![Columbia_HadleyKristie Kristie Hadley](https://www.saem.org/images/default-source/gemfc/columbia_hadleykristiec80037e7-ba95-4a7e-807f-d3b23629f889.jpg?sfvrsn=687aedd6_1)
Kristie Hadley
2022Contacts
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Other Documents - Program Specific Requirements
Additional Application / Interview Information
Application Criteria
Candidates for the fellowship must have completed an ACGME-accredited Emergency Medicine residency.
We are not accepting H1-B visa applicants. We do not sponsor J-1 visa applicants.
We seek to create an equitable, diverse, and inclusive community in the Columbia University NewYork-Presbyterian Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship. If there is anything that you would like to share with us regarding your pathway or challenges to Global Emergency Medicine or your identities, please let us know. Also, if you are interested in connecting to others within our diverse community, we would be happy to facilitate a connection.
Application Process
Important Dates
Application Deadline
Interview Date
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