WHO Emergency Medical Teams Initiative

26/05/2026

Samaritan’s Purse is among the highly experienced Emergency Medical Teams progressing through the EMT classification process in the Region of the Americas.

With extensive operational experience in responding to Ebola outbreaks, their treatment center capacity brings valuable clinical, operational, and public health expertise to this response. Its deployment will be an important asset in supporting affected communities and strengthening the collective emergency health response.

13/05/2026

‼️IMPORTANT UPDATE ‼️

Due to unforeseen circumstances, there has been a meeting date change to 3-5 November, 2026.

The WHO Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) Global Meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia will be held on 3-5 November, 2026.

Registrations are now open!
The EMT Global Meeting will once again gather the global EMT Network, partners and participants from around the world to exchange knowledge, share research and innovations, and advance actions towards achieving EMT 2030.

Key events include:
Regional group meetings
Technical sessions in parallel tracks
Research abstract presentations
Exhibition hall
High-level strategic meetings
Networking opportunities

Registrations are subject to review and approval by the organizing committee. There is no fee to attend the meeting, but participants are required to arrange and cover the costs of their own travel and accommodations.

For more information and to register your expression of interest to attend, visit: https://www.emtglobalmeeting2026.com/

Registrations close: 11 October 2026.





of Health, Ethiopia
Public Health Institute
Permanent Mission Geneva
Health Organization Ethiopia
Health Organization African Region
Emergency Medical Teams Initiative

06/05/2026

Registrations are now open for the WHO Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) Global Meeting to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 24-26 November, 2026.

This meeting will once again gather the global EMT Network, partners and participants from around the world to exchange knowledge, share research and innovations, and advance actions towards achieving EMT 2030.

Key events include:
Regional group meetings
Technical sessions in parallel tracks
Research abstract presentations
Exhibition hall
High-level strategic meetings
Networking opportunities

Registrations are subject to review and approval by the organizing committee. There is no fee to attend the meeting, but participants are required to arrange and cover the costs of their own travel and accommodations.

For more information and to register your expression of interest to attend, visit: https://www.emtglobalmeeting2026.com/

Registrations close: 25 October 2026.





Ministry of Health,Ethiopia
Ethiopian Public Health Institute
Ethiopian permanent Mission Geneva
World Health Organization Ethiopia
World Health Organization African Region

23/04/2026

Call for abstracts is now open for the WHO Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) Global Meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 24-26 November, 2026. Don’t miss this global meeting opportunity to share evidence-based best practices, present experiences, and showcase your research for improving surge systems and capacities to rapidly and effectively respond to health emergencies.

Themes for submission include:
-Policy
-Quality improvement and standard setting
-Capacity building and training
-Emergency response and operations
-Monitoring and evaluation
-Interoperability with other surge capacities

Additional cross-cutting themes for this year are: National EMTs, resource-limited settings, and lessons from setbacks or failures.

Submitted abstracts may be for oral or poster presentation.

Abstract submission (and further information) can be found via link: https://lnkd.in/e8M5yTsh
Submissions close: 16 August 2026.

The World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) will be supporting abstract management for this Global Meeting. A selection of abstracts from the meeting will be published as a special online supplement to WADEM’s academic journal, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine on Cambridge Core.

Coming soon: Registrations for the EMT Global Meeting will be opening on the 1st of May. Watch this space for the link to the event website and registration page.




Ministry of Health,Ethiopia
Ethiopian Public Health Institute
Ethiopian permanent Mission Geneva
World Health Organization Ethiopia
World Health Organization African Region

16/04/2026

19/03/2026

A moment at Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks - HNPW to recognise a key partner of the Emergency Medical Teams initiative. The WHO EMT Secretariat acknowledged the longstanding support of AGENCIA ESPAÑOLA DE COOPERACION INTERNACIONAL PARA EL DESARROLLO (AECID), both globally and in humanitarian contexts.

In recognition of this contribution, an EMT flag signed by members of EMTs deployed and from the network was presented to the agency as a token of appreciation. In response, AECID's head of the humanitarian emergencies area, Marta Catalinas Pérez, emphasised, “Quality funding is key to us… and we remain committed to supporting high-quality humanitarian action.”

Strong partnerships like this continue to underpin effective EMT preparedness and response, particularly in complex humanitarian crises.

¡Muchas gracias, AECID! 🇪🇸

26/02/2026

The Role of Emergency Medical Teams in Humanitarian Crises

Join us in person at the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks - HNPW as we share operational reflections from EMT deployments in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Chad, and along the Venezuela–Colombia border, this session will highlight how EMTs deliver quality-assured emergency and trauma care while strengthening and empowering national EMTs through mentoring, skills transfer, operational readiness, and institutionalisation—even in insecure and access-constrained environments.

🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/3Oln91Q

23/12/2025

🌐 Save the date for the next WHO Emergency Medical Teams Global Meeting to be held in Addis Ababa, 24-26 November 2026. Watch this space for more updates.

12/11/2025

🌍Join us for the next EMT Global Monthly Call!

🔹From Framework to Field: Integrating Rehabilitation into Emergency Medical Teams

📍 Format: Teams Webinar (registration required)
🗓 Date: 2 December 2025
🕐 Time: 13:00–14:15 CET (Geneva)

Click to register 👉 https://lnkd.in/es9fvivt

07/10/2025

Thank you to the speakers and participants of the October EMT Global Monthly Call with GOARN - Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network

Chair - Jerry-Jonas MBASHA, MD, MSc, PhD
Speakers - Irena Djordjevic, Abdourahmane SOW; Alexander Rosewell Katherine Gibney

WHO networks continue to strengthen global health security by bringing together multidisciplinary expertise to ensure readiness and scalable responses to public health emergencies.

The presentation's highlighted GOARN’s National Outbreak Response Handbook, a practical, experience-based resource shaped by diverse global expertise. It’s an important step toward more inclusive, equitable, and collective responses to outbreaks.

Discussions also underscored the value of collaboration, showing how closer partnerships between GOARN and EMTs, both part of the ecosystem, help align and reinforce global emergency response efforts.