Life in a Field Hospital
31st August 2023
UK-Med can deploy and staff a field hospital at a moment's notice, anywhere in the world...
Disaster Response
What Does it Mean to be a Humanitarian Health Worker?
18th August 2023
World Humanitarian Day commemorates the hard work and dedication of those who deliver aid around the world....
How to Prepare for a Crisis
17th August 2023
Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) is a simulation to prepare humanitarians for deployment to conflict and disaster zones across the globe....
FCDO Visit to IDP Camps in Malawi
10th July 2023
When Malawi was hit by the record-breaking Cyclone Freddy in February 2023, UK-Med (representing the UK as its Emergency Medical Team) responded by creating mobile medical clinics in the camps created for Internally Displaced People who'd lost their homes. ...
A Small Team Can Make a Big Difference
28th May 2023
When Malawi was hit by the record-breaking Cyclone Freddy in February 2023, UK-Med (representing the UK as its Emergency Medical Team) responded by creating mobile medical clinics in the camps created for Internally Displaced People who'd lost their homes. ...
A Short History of UK-Med and the University of Manchester
15th May 2023
It was over a coffee and a connection between three professors that the idea came about for UK-Med to base its headquarters at the University of Manchester, along with forming a new institute. How It Began When ill-health - including metal poisoning in the Balkans - meant...
Meet our Beirut academic: serving communities in Syria
20th April 2023
From her home in Beirut, Assistant Professor Diana Maddah is working with people in northwest Syria, following the devastating earthquakes in February. UK-Med have team members all over the world, and Diana has been with us for more than two years. ...
Mobile health clinics: delivering health to hard-hit communities in Turkey
14th March 2023
With UK-Med’s second wave of medics now in Türkoğlu, Turkey, Doctor Richard Armitage, an NHS General Practitioner (GP) and UK-Med registered member has arrived to provide medical support to communities in need after the earthquakes in Turkey & Syria....
Life in Turkey, Three-Weeks on
3rd March 2023
It’s more than three weeks since the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria took over 50,000 lives and injured thousands more....
Beyond the rubble: Tony Redmond on the aftermath of the Turkey-Syria earthquake
10th February 2023
The death toll from the earthquakes that have afflicted Turkey and Syria has shocked the world. UK-Med Founder, Tony Redmond writes about the post-disaster humanitarian health crisis which now starts....