Public Health in the Emergency Department:Academic Emergency MedicineConsensus Conference Executive Summary

Errors conference: executive summary.

T ARTICLES published here outline a daunting task, one that might take a generation, even given adequate funding and support. So that we are not paralyzed by the enormity of the job, priorities are selected and outlined here. Some additional topics and controversies are also highlighted here. Selected goals are proposed and general summary points are offered. One difficulty that came up repeate...

The Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Review

Crack in Brazil: a public health emergency.

Public Health Emergency Response in Taiwan

In recent years, growth of international travel and trade, as well as climate change, has resulted in the frequent emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases such as Ebola, Zika, and MERS. In 2016, Taiwan used the Joint External Evaluation (JEE) tool to evaluate its public health emergency response capacities and understand important areas for improvement. This article presents Taiwan's d...

Organization, execution and evaluation of the 2014 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference on Gender-Specific Research in Emergency Care - an executive summary.

With the goal of reducing inequalities in patient care, the 2014 Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) consensus conference, "Gender-Specific Research in Emergency Care: Investigate, Understand, and Translate How Gender Affects Patient Outcomes," convened a diverse group of researchers, clinicians, health care providers, patients, and representatives of federal agencies and policy-makers in Dallas,...