COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GLOBAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE FELLOWSHIP

Each Fellow conducts up to six months of fieldwork over two years, working 796 (with an MPH) 846 (without an MPH) hours per year as an Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH)/ Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) /Allen Hospital Emergency Department (ED). The NYPH/CUIMC ED serves a predominantly underserved community in Washington Heights in northern Manhattan. It also 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 NYPH 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:

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.
• 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.

Health Systems Strengthening

• Columbia University ICAP research in Sierra Leone to strengthen national IPC, IDSR, and Mpox case management through the Epidemic Ready Primary Health Care model (Christina Roberto, 2025).  
• Columbia University ICAP , evaluation of HIV service delivery and system performance in Solwezi, Zambia, (Tyler Nghiem, 2025). 
• Partnered with IPAS in Delhi, India, to design long-term contraception strategies for underserved rural communities (Sabena Vaswani, 2024).  
• Partnered with the MoH and Partners In Health to strengthen emergency care services in Sierra Leone and conducted a WHO Emergency Care System Assessment (ECO HEAT) across 17 government facilities in Sierra Leone (Abubakarr Bangura, 2022). 
• Advanced health system strengthening at University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, providing emergency care and service delivery support during a six-month placement (Alex Sloboda, 2022).  
• Supported Ghana MoH research on integrating rural Emergency Dispatch Centers under the Ghana Health Service and National Ambulance Service (Brennan Bollman & Alex Sloboda, 2022).  
• Contributed to emergency medicine training at CHUK, University Teaching Hospital in Kigali ( Charlotte Roy, Brennan Bollman & William Bruno, 2021–2022). 
• Partnered with the USAID-funded ACERS Consortium to enhance Emergency Maternal and Neonatal Care (EmONC) in rural Ghana. 
• Supported the sidHARTe Rwanda Program with the Rwanda MoH to strengthen emergency systems (since 2011). 
• Launched the sidHARTe – Strengthening Emergency Systems Program in Ghana to improve the integration of primary and emergency care delivery (2008).

Humanitarian Action Partnerships

• Collaborated with the CU Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education to deliver community education on climate-health in the Dominican Republic, analyze program data, and co-author a peer-reviewed publication (Jessica Patel, 2025).  
• Partnered with El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) in Mexico to develop infectious disease curricula, support community health promoters, and analyze migrant healthcare access disparities (Arjun Banerjee, 2025). 
• Conducted data analysis for Taimaka in Nigeria, assessing biometric palmprint recognition in children to enhance identification and follow-up care in CMAM programs (Jessica Patel, 2025).  
• Worked with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico , to address sexual and reproductive health needs of migrants in shelters (Kevin Molyneux, 2024).  
• Provided medical care to Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, through a nine-month mission with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) (William Bruno, 2023). 
• Delivered clinical services to Ukrainian refugees in Moldova with Medical Teams International (Kristie Hadley & William Bruno, 2022).  
• Provided clinical support with MSF in conflict-affected Tigray, Ethiopia , at fixed and mobile clinics in Shire (Charlotte Roy, 2021). 
• Participated in MSF’s COVID-19 response in Peru during the pandemic’s peak (Brennan Bollman, 2021). 
• the pandemic’s peak (Brennan Bollman, 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, research interests, implementation, advocacy, policy and post-fellowship goals.

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

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

·         2 LoRs (1 from Program Director): Please ask writers to focus on: a. Clinical abilities b. Professionalism and interpersonal skills c. Ability to navigate complexity (including research, teaching, service, or advocacy). Please ask them NOT to emphasize your global or 'glocal' work. 

·        3rd LoR: Please include your Global Health /’Glocal' work, research, program implementation, advocacy or activism. 

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 Mendez Ruiz.

Selected fellows MUST APPLY SEPERATELY to the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health by January 15 through the Schools of Public Health Application Service (SOPHAS).