Our Partners
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office’s delivers the UK’s work to tackle the global challenges of poverty and disease, mass migration, insecurity and conflict. FCDO is a ministerial department, working to building a safer, healthier, more prosperous world for people both at home and abroad.
FCDO provides the funding for the Emergency Deployment Team, which encompasses the UK Emergency Medical Team programme, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government.
Academic Partners
The Faculty of Remote and Rural Healthcare (FRRHH) was formally launched in November 2018 by The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd), incorporating Humanitarian in its structure in August 2020.
The faculty was established in response to the need identified within both industry and the public health arena to define, review and set standards of competence for organisations as well as medical and non-medical personnel delivering healthcare in remote and rural environments.
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester is UK-Med’s academic partner.
Founded by leading University of Manchester academics, HCRI collaborates with UK-Med on research development and implementation, the delivery of workshops, seminars and training and the sharing of best practice, knowledge and opportunities.
The Lebanese American University is a secular and private American university located in Lebanon. It has two campuses and offers 58 degrees
LAU was founded as a college for women in 1924, tracing its origins back to the first school for girls in the Ottoman empire started by Presbyterian missionaries in the 1830s. The institution has grown and changed tremendously through the decades, but the enterprising and progressive spirit of those who started it endures.
The University of Glasgow is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland.
Established in 1451, the University is recognised internationally for its ground-breaking work and has inspired thinkers from eminent scientist Lord Kelvin to the father of economics Adam Smith. It is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland’s four ancient universities.
Program Delivery Partners
Humanity & Inclusion (HI, formerly known as Handicap International) is an international aid organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster.
Working alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, HI take action and raise awareness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.
The UK-PHRST, funded by UK aid from the Department of Health and Social Care, supports low- and middle-income countries in investigating and responding to disease outbreaks and conducts research to improve our response to future epidemics.
The UK-PHRST is a partnership between the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the UK Health Security Agency, with contributing academic partners.
The UK Emergency Medical Team (UK EMT) provides high quality emergency health care solutions in a range of humanitarian contexts on behalf of the UK Government. Funded by UK Aid, it’s the frontline of the UK’s response to disasters around the world.
UK-Med helps to staff, launch and manage UK Emergency Medical Team responses. We recruit, vet and train team members, so they’re available to help in emergencies overseas. At any time, we have a team of 60 clinicians who are ready to respond to disasters anywhere in the world within 24 hours.
Standby Partners play a key role in strengthening the capacity of WHO and the broader health sector during all aspects of emergencies. These partners maintain deployment rosters of pre-screened and trained candidates who can be rapidly deployed to support WHO and the Health Cluster which allows WHO to rapidly and flexibly deliver surge capacity.
WHO holds Standby Partnership Agreements with a small number of external partners, including UK-Med, who provide short-term surge support to WHO’s emergency work.
READY Initiative Partners
The Johns Hopkins Centre for Humanitarian Health is an academic programme which uses knowledge and learning to save lives and reduce human suffering, including the consequences of humanitarian emergencies and disasters and they do this through research, educating and training and empowering individuals, communities, organisations and governments. A partner within the READY project group consortium.
Sounding the Siren Partners
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester is UK-Med’s academic partner.
Founded by leading University of Manchester academics, HCRI collaborates with UK-Med on research development and implementation, the delivery of workshops, seminars and training and the sharing of best practice, knowledge and opportunities.