WHO Emergency Medical Teams Initiative

09/06/2026

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