GEM-CARN Achievements
- Inaugural GEMCARN meeting 7th Feb 2019 WHO Geneva
- Pilot data collection on evaluating the WHO Emergency Care Toolkit – early studies in Tanzania & Uganda by University of Cape Town PhD student
- An updated systematic review of quality indicators for emergency care in low resource settings has also been conducted
- Two emerging researchers from Tanzania and South Africa funded to attend training programmes and conferences in the UK: Dr. Catherine Reuben Shari (MD, MMed), an emergency physician and Honorary Lecturer at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences attended Academic Trainees Day and Emergency Medicine Research Engagement Day. The events both took place at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, London, on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 January 2020.
Ms. Elzarie Theron (MA), a research psychologist and research intern in the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cape Town attended the Sheffield University Global Health Symposium on 23 January 2020
- GEM-CARN website and academy platform published
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| Prof Lecky and Dr Shari at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in 2020 | GEM-CARN collaborators at the Sheffield University Global Health Symposium in January 2020 |
Publications
- GEM-CARNS poster presented at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Conference in September 2019.
- Results of research priority setting exercise presented at the Sheffield Global Health Symposium in January 2020, and published in BMC Emergency Medicine
Citation: Lecky, F.E., Reynolds, T., Otesile, O. et al. Harnessing inter-disciplinary collaboration to improve emergency care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): results of research prioritisation setting exercise. BMC Emerg Med 20, 68 (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-020-00362-7
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-020-00362-7
Author list
| Name | Affiliations |
| Prof Fiona E. Lecky MD/PhD | School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, and Emergency Department, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford UK |
| Teri Reynolds MD/PhD | World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Olubukola Otesile MPH | School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, and Emergency Department, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford UK |
| Sara Hollis MSc | World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Janette Turner MSc | School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, and Emergency Department, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford UK |
| Gordon Fuller MD/PhD | School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, and Emergency Department, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford UK |
| Ian Sammy MD,PhD | Scarborough General Hospital, Tobago |
| Jean Williams-Johnson DM | The University of West Indies, Jamaica |
| Heike Geduld MMED | College of Emergency Medicine, South Africa |
| Andrea G. Tenner MD | University of California San Francisco, USA |
| Simone French DM | The University of West Indies, Jamaica |
| Ishtar Govia PhD | The University of West Indies, Jamaica |
| Julie Balen PhD | School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, and Emergency Department, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford UK |
| Prof Steve Goodacre MD/PhD | School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, and Emergency Department, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford UK |
| Prof Sujan B. Marahatta PhD | Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal |
| Shaheem DeVries MphilEM | Emergency Medical Services for the Western Cape Government, South Africa |
| Hendry R. Sawe MMED | Emergency Medical Association of Tanzania (EMAT) Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania |
| Prof Mohamed El-Shinawi MD | Ain Shams University, Egypt |
| Juma Mfinanga MMED | Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania |
| Prof Andrés M. Rubiano MD | Neurosciences Institute, El Bosque University, Bogotá, Colombia Colombian Trauma Association, Bogotá, Colombia |
| Henda Chebbi MD | Ministry of Health, Tunisia |
| Sang Do Shin PhD | Seoul National University Hospital, South Korea |
| Jose Maria E. Ferrer MD | American Heart Association (AHA), USA |
| Mashyaneh Haddadi MD | Ministry of Health, Iran |
| Tsion Firew MD | Columbia University, Emergency Medicine, New York, NY, USA Ministry of Health, Ethiopia |
| Kathryn Taubert PhD | American Heart Association (AHA), Switzerland |
| Andrew Lee MD | School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, and Emergency Department, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford UK |
| Pauline Convocar MD | Philippine College of Emergency Medicine, Philippines |
| Sabariah Jamaluddin MMED | Sungai Buloh Hospital, Malaysia |
| Shahzmah Kotecha MD | Bugando Medical Centre, Tanzania |
| Emad Abu Yaqeen MBBS | Ministry of Health, Jordan |
| Katie Wells MD | World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Prof Lee A Wallis MD, PhD | Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
The GEM-CARN project is predominantly funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (Round 1) under Research England’s Quality Related strategic funding, and we gratefully acknowledge this support.
