Department of Emergency Medicine

Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship

The two-year academic fellowship boasts a wealth of research mentoring opportunities, robust interdepartmental collaboration, and a rich clinical and teaching experience, both domestically and abroad.

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Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship

The two-year academic fellowship boasts a wealth of research mentoring opportunities, robust interdepartmental collaboration, and a rich clinical and teaching experience, both domestically and abroad.

Welcome to Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Brown! Sponsored by Brown Emergency Medicine and affiliated with The Warren Alpert Medical School as well as Brown School of Public Health. The two-year academic fellowship boasts a wealth of research mentoring opportunities, robust interdepartmental collaboration, and a rich clinical and teaching experience, both domestically and abroad.

Brown Universities Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Continuing, Adapting and Growing during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Brown Universities Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship will continue to accept  applications for the coming 2021 academic year. Although the approach to training in global emergency medicine has been reshaped by the COVID-19 pandemic our fellowship is growing and adapting as we continue to train highly skilled global health physicians and collaborate with partners from around the world to advance scientific knowledge and enhance care delivery.  

For example, in collaboration with humanitarian organization Project Hope, our fellows have assisted with the creation and implementation of COVID-19 preparedness and response training program that has scaled up healthcare workforces in over 10 countries with more than 4000 front-line practitioners trained.

Project Hope 

If you have considered a career as a global health practitioner, consider the dynamic fellowship opportunities that are available through Brown Universities Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship.

COVID-19 and Global Emergency Medicine

As the landscape of global health has changed during 2020, the the division of Global Emergency Medicine has adapted to actively engage in COVID-19 response both within and outside of the United States. Our division faculty and fellows have help lead response activities in our health system in Rhode Island developing field hospitals and policy approaches and executed key research to advance the understanding of how best to respond to COIVD-19. Globally our division has partnered with humanitarian organizations to develop and deliver training to response personnel in over 20 countries from around the world, resulting in training of over 20,000 frontline providers.

Global Experience

The 2-year fellowship offers 3 months per year of protected travel and research time. Easy scheduling allows for fellows to attend international conferences for presentations. Established international experiences available to our fellows include projects in Rwanda, Nicaragua, Kenya, Haiti, Bangladesh, and American Samoa in areas such as post-conflict development, EM curricula design and training, acute humanitarian and disaster response, and global EM research. Visit the Global Sites page for more information about our well established core global opportunities. 

Fellows may also work closely with a faculty mentor within the Division of Global Emergency Medicine or outside faculty to establish their own international program or research project. Apart from HRIC, HELP, and other beneficial resources include the Brown University's Global Health Initiative, a unique forum for faculty and fellow collaboration that fosters cross-departmental mentoring relationships. Fellows will have the opportunity to work with the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies. 

Training and Mentoring

The Department of Emergency Medicine at Brown University has one of the few formal academic Divisions of Global Emergency Medicine anywhere in the country allowing us to offer our Global Emergency Medicine fellows a wide range of training and mentoring resources. Our Division of Global Emergency Medicine includes faculty and fellows actively engaged in international emergency medicine development, training, research and humanitarian relief.

Over two years fellows will acquire and apply skills in epidemiology, research methodology, and program planning through a longitudinal academic project. As part of our Global Emergency Medicine fellowship, fellows can choose to earn an advanced degree in the following:

Fellows who already possess one or more of these degrees may opt out of the degree requirement at the discretion of the fellowship director. Other educational opportunities such as the certificate in clinical and translational research as well as structured courses are offered through the School of Public Health for those applicants with advanced degrees.

In addition to the advanced degree program, fellows will participate in a dedicated Humanitarian Emergency / Disaster Certification course, such as the Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP) course through the International Committee of the Red Cross and World Health Organization and/or the Harvard Humanitarian Response Intensive Course (HRIC). Fellows will have the opportunity to work with the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies. 

We are pleased to announce a new online tool to support global emergency medicine fellowship instructional needs via a portal called Canvas, where current fellows can access their GEM Fellowship academic portal.

Canvas

Clinical Experience

Fellows will function as a teaching attending in the a high-volume Level I trauma center and local community hospital working with residents of a renowned four-year academic EM training program.

Clinical Sites

Learn more about the hospitals and training sites where emergency medicine faculty and residents serve Greater Rhode Island.

Clinical Sites

Application Process

***To apply please send us your CV and three letters of recommendation and your letter of intent by email.

Email Us

EM Fellowship Application Form

Wendy Wesley - GEM Fellowship Coordinator
Wendy_Wesley@brown.edu | Wendy.Wesley@brownphysicians.org

Naz Karim MD, MHA, MPH
Director | Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship
naz_karim@brown.edu | naz.karim@brownphysicians.org

Adam R. Aluisio, MD, MSc, DTM&H
Associate Fellowship Director | Division of Global Emergency Medicine 
adam_aluisio@brown.edu | adam.aluisio@brownphysicians.org 

Please note that although application materials should be sent directly via email, to the recipients listed above, applicants must also register with the National Residency Match Program as Global Emergency Medicine fellowship positions will be matched through NRMP process.

Emergency Medicine Fellowship Match

Global Emergency Medicine Fellowships

Division Highlights

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Stephanie Garbern, MD and Catalina Gonzalez Marques, MD conducting an online training on the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline health workers responding to COVID19 with Project Hope (in North Macedonia, Kosovo, Indonesia, Puerto Rico)

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Stephanie Garbern, MD and Catalina Gonzalez Marques, MD conducting an online training simulation on COVID19 critical care management for frontline health workers with Project Hope.

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Stephanie Garbern, MD with Drs Sabiha Nasrin and Dr Mahmuda Begum Monjory at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research.

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Stephanie Garbern, MD, Dr Maxwell Osei-Ampofo and Dr Amin Coker rolling out biosensor study in septic patients at Komfo-Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana.

Current Fellows

Former Fellows

  • Andy Beck, MD

    Andrew Beck, MD

    andrewbeck28@gmail.com

    Dr. Beck is a joint fellow between the Divisions of Medical Education and Global Emergency Medicine. He completed medical school at Case Western Reserve University, followed by residency at Brown University. His specific interest is in medical education in the global setting, and he has worked in teaching emergency medicine in Africa and South America. He has thousands of hours of direct teaching experience in one-on-one, classroom, and bedside settings, and is currently working on using medical education to facilitate clinical operational improvement.

  • Meagan Barry, MD, PhD

    Meagan Barry, MD, PhD

    meagan_barry@brown.edu

    Dr. Meagan Barry graduated from Baylor College of Medicine with a PhD in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine and a Diploma In Tropical Medicine. Her thesis project was to develop a vaccine for Chagas disease using a mouse model of disease. She received the Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health (CTropMed) from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at AMS as a Brown Residency International/Global Health Training (BRIGHT) scholar and with a Distinction in Research. Her fellowship work investigates the impact of maternal schistosomiasis and hookworm infection on the maternal and infant microbiome and on resulting infant health outcomes.

  • Ramu Kharel, MD, MPH, CTropMed

    Ramu Kharel, MD, MPH, CTropMed

    ramu_kharel@brown.edu

    Dr. Ramu Kharel is an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine with an appointment in the Division of Global Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He received his Medical Doctorate from UT Southwestern in Dallas  and his Masters of Public Health from the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University. He  completed specialty training in Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Kharel also has completed focused sub-specialty training in Global Emergency Medicine research and Clinical Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.  Dr. Kharel works clinically in the United States as a practicing emergency care physician and also undertakes global health research focused in Nepal.. His research focuses  predominantly on improving emergency care systems. His work equips community health workers to respond to emergencies in pre-hospital settings. Dr. Kharel is the founder of a grassroots NGO in Nepal called HAPSA Nepal and has worked extensively in earthquake response, COVID-19 response and other disasters. He is on board of non-governmental organizations working in health care delivery in Nepal as well.  Dr. Kharel is very active in social media, mostly teaching public health measures in the face of population disasters. Dr. Kharel loves basketball and Urdu poetry.

  • Austin Lee, MD, MPH

    Austin Lee, MD, MPH

    jaustinlee@brown.edu

    Dr. J. Austin Lee is a fellow in Global Emergency Medicine at Brown University and he is an attending physician in emergency medicine at Miriam Hospital in Rhode Island. He obtained his MPH with a focus in global health from George Washington University and spent several years working on a variety of projects at the Sabin Vaccine Institute focused on neglected tropical infections and typhoid. Dr. Lee attended medical school at Indiana University, and was chief resident in emergency medicine at the University of Virginia. Dr. Lee is primarily interested in growing and strengthening the speciality of emergency medicine in developing contexts. He has worked in both public health and clinical medicine in a number of different regions around the world.