Columbia University Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship
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The Columbia University Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship (CU Global EMF) country's first Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship program. Since its inception in 2006, this competitive program prepares the practicing physician to assume a leadership role in global health and humanitarian action. We train Emergency Physicians to become thought leaders in data-informed health systems strengthening, humanitarian action, and disaster response through research, service, and policy change. The CU Global EMF has produced leaders of global health in the WHO, Global Health Cluster, IRC, MSF, IMC, CDC, Ministries of Health, and Emergency Medicine programs worldwide.
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 a 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.
Accepting Applications
Fellowship Experience
Each Fellow conducts approximately six months of fieldwork over the 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 the underserved population of Washington Heights NYC, a predominantly low-income, Latinx community 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 serves as one of two primary teaching sites for the NYP Emergency Medicine Residency Program. The Allen Hospital is NYP's community hospital in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan. At this site, both adult and pediatric patients can receive care from the same faculty as is found 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 organizations including MSF, IRC, WHO, IMC, and UNICEF. Recent fellows' fieldwork includes the following recent illustrative examples:
- 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 been supported the implementation research on data collection and use regarding the integration of rural district-level Emergency Dispatch Centers with the Ghana 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 Ministry of Health (MoH). Most recently, 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.
- 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. Abubakarr Bangura is working with Sierra Leone Partners in Health (PIH) under the Ministry of Health. 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.
- Dr. William Bruno is working at the Thai-Burmese border with Community Partners International to study the burden of non-communicable diseases amongst the conflict-affected population of rural Myanmar.
- Drs. Charlotte Roy, Brennan Bollman, and Dr. William Bruno supported our 11-year collaboration in Rwanda with the Emergency Medicine residency at The University Teaching Hospital in Kigali (CHUK) in 2021 and 2022.
- Dr. Charlotte Roy worked with MSF in conflict-affected Tigray, Ethiopia providing clinical support to three fixed clinics and one mobile clinic in Shire, Ethiopia.
- Dr. Brennan Bolman also worked with Peru's MSF COVID-19 pandemic response during the outbreak's peak.
Columbia University provides a comprehensive package of benefits designed to allow eligible faculty and staff to create a program suited to your needs and those of your family. Depending on your eligibility, the University offers healthcare coverage, dental coverage, flexible spending accounts, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), pre-tax transit and parking reimbursement, retirement benefits, tuition programs, and more. Finally, with the approval of the fellowship director, there is up to $10,000 worth of fieldwork/CME available annually.
Fellowship Curriculum
In addition to conducting clinical work during their first year, the Global EMFs are offered the ICRC Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP) Course and matriculate in the CU MSPH MPH Program. The fellows enroll in the MSPH MPH Public Health and Humanitarian Action Certificate (PHHA) in the Heilbrunn Department of Population & Family Health (Pop Fam Department).
The second year focuses more on fieldwork. Many fellows gain rich acute health systems strengthening work with the Columbia University's Pop Fam Department's sidHARTe – Strengthening Emergency Systems Program. Here, the fellows hone programmatic and technical public health research skills through collaboration with local and global institutions at the government, university, and policy level. Since 2006 the fellows have worked on various aspects of complex adaptive systems implementation research as well as cascading capacity building in Ghana, Rwanda, and India.
The CU Global EMF fellowship also places emphasis on public health approaches to complex adaptive systems strengthening and research. Through structured learning in the MPH Program, we emphasize interdisciplinary, practice-based research, and education. Additionally, through the PHHA Certificate, students learn the most current needs of international humanitarian organizations and develop the skills necessary to succeed in complex emergencies, fragile states, and post-conflict environments. Located in New York City, both faculty and staff are connected to extensive humanitarian, human rights, and health networks locally and around the world.
Projects
| Project Name & Description | Details | ||
|---|---|---|---|
sidHARTe - Strengthening Emergency Systems Program |
sidHARTe partners to provide timely, accessible, high-quality acute care systems in resource limited settings worldwide | Details | |
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. https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/research/strengthening-emergency-systems/acute-care-and-emergency-referral-systems-acers | Details | |
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). Most recently, 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. https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/research/strengthening-emergency-systems/rwanda-emergency-care-systems | Details |
Alumni
Hayes Wong
2018
Alyssa Green
2019
Timothy Depp
2020
Charlotte Roy
2021
Makini Chisolm-Straker
2015
Eric Cioe
2015
Cara Taubman
2016
Andrea Tenner
2012
Tsion Firew
2017
Hillary Cohen
2008
Solomon Kuah
2009
Jeffrey Kinyon
2010
Dziwe Ntaba
2013
E. Brennan Bollman
2021
Sonya Stokes
2018
Aaron Hultgren
2012
Deepti Thomas
2008
Shama Patel
2019
Ben Kaufman
2020
Alexander Sloboda
2022
Kristie Hadley
2022
Trina Helderman
2009
Craig Spencer
2013
Jonathan Lee
2017
Mary Choi
2011
Tim Tan
2014
Contacts
Program Director
Rachel Moresky
Director of Columbia University Global Emergency Medicine
Rachel T. Moresky, MD, MPH, FACEP is an Associate Professor of Public Health, Heilbrunn Population, and Family Health at Columbia University Mailma...
Program Director
Rachel Moresky
Director of Columbia University Global Emergency Medicine
Rachel T. Moresky, MD, MPH, FACEP is an Associate Professor of Public Health, Heilbrunn Population, and Family Health at Columbia University Mailma...
Application
Candidates for the fellowship must have successfully completed an ACGME-accredited residency in Emergency Medicine. The fellow will serve as an attending at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The salary is very competitive: benefits, tuition fees for the MPH, the Humanitarian Emergencies of Large Populations (HELP) course, travel expenses, and stipends are provided by the fellowship.
Application Requirements
1. A letter of interest (why you are interested in OUR CU Fellowship in particular – please be specific about why Columbia University) 2. A one-page personal statement (include your fellowship goals, research /implementation/advocacy interests, and post-fellowship goals) 3. Curriculum vitae (please include email and mobile phone number). 4. THREE letters of reference a. TWO of your letters of recommendation should describe your personality and clinical acumen in detail (NOT reiterate your global health background unless they worked with you in the field) i. ONE should be from the current Residency Program Director focus on your personality and clinical acumen, NOT your global work, please ii. ONE of your letters should describe your research, teaching, service, or advocacy work.
Application Timeline
Interviews will be in October
Interested Candidates
We are not accepting H1-B visa applicants. We do not sponsor J-1 visa applicants. If you have any issues with regard to uploading, please email us: 1. Ms. Janette D. Ricketts (jr3511@cumc.columbia.edu) & 2. Dr. Rachel T. Moresky (rachel.moresky@columbia.edu) 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.