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....
Disaster Response
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. ...