Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship

The Columbia University Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship (CU Global EMF) / New York-Presbyterian Hospital Program is one of the oldest EM fellowship programs in the country, founded in 2006. Since 2014, the CU Global EMF program has partnered with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières-USA (MSF) to deliver emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters or exclusion from health care worldwide.

The CU Global EMF / New York-Presbyterian Hospital Program is seeking applications for one fellowship position this year. We train Emergency Physicians to become thought leaders in health systems strengthening, humanitarian action, human rights and disaster response through research, service, and policy change.  

Our approach is centered on fostering principal partnerships and valuing localization and decoloniality in the context of humanitarian action or development assistance for health.  We believe that by understanding health's structural and social determinants, we can cultivate global health leaders with a diverse skill set. This is achieved through enhancing the fellows' research, program planning, research methods, academic, administrative, grant writing, and communication skills. 

We have a long history of providing Columbia Global Emergency Medicine Fellows with diverse opportunities. We view local health as part of our global health approach, reflecting our commitment to understanding global health as local health – a ‘glocal’ approach. Whether in Kono, Sierre Leone, Tigray Ethiopia, Crownpoint, New Mexico Indian Health Service (HIS) Facility or on the southern border of the United States near Ciudad Juarez or Tijuana, Mexico, we are committed to working on access to high-quality prevention and care.

Dr. Abubakarr Bangura in Sierra Leone, there to conduct a needs assessment under the Ministry of Health with Partners in Health and WHO. 

For the last two decades, our Global EM Fellows have benefitted from our CU faculty and other Fellowship alumni, whose work spans multidisciplinary fields. We provide a robust mentorship network, guiding fellows in their work with UN agencies, local and international NGOs, government, and academia, the WHO, IRC, MSF, IMC, US CDC, Global Health Cluster, US IHS Ministries of Health, and World Health Assembly and academic collaborations. 


The CU Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship is a two-year program that combines in-depth clinical and public health work in low-resource health settings. Fellows enroll in a Master of Public Health (MPH) program at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, within the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, under the Forced Migration and Health program. The program enables fellows to: 

For additional details, please visit our other websites:

  1. SAEM Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA) Website – Columbia University      
  2. CU Maiman School of Public Health Global EM Fellowship Website

 

How to Apply

Candidates for the fellowship must have completed an ACGME-accredited residency in Emergency Medicine. The fellow will serve as an attending at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The salary is very competitive. The fellowship provides benefits, tuition fees for the MPH, the ICRC Humanitarian Emergencies of Large Populations (HELP) course, travel expenses, and stipends.

For additional details, please visit our other website: SAEM Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA) Website – Columbia University.      

 

Application Process

You must apply through https://saem.smapply.io/prog/global_em_fellowship_application/
Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Applicants must use this portal to apply directly to fellowship programs and register for the NRMP Match.

  • CU Application Deadline:                                                     September 20, 2025; 11:59pm EST 
  • Columbia Fellowship Zoom Interview:                             October 23, 2025, from 8am - 4pm
  • NMRP Rank Order List Certification Deadline:                 November 5, 2025 at 9:00pm EST
  • NRMP Match Day:                                                             November 19, 2025

1. Letter of Interest: Why are you interested in OUR Fellowship? Please be specific about why Columbia University.

2. Personal Statement (one page): Including fellowship goals, implementation/research interests, and post-fellowship goals.

3. Curriculum Vitae: Please include email and mobile phone number.

4. Three Letters of Reference (LoR): Kindly ask your letter writers to do the following:

  • TWO LoR (one from PD) on your clinical abilities, personality (how you interact with people professionally), and how you navigate complexity. This can include research, teaching, service, or advocacy work. Please ask them to AVOID focusing on your global/local 'Glocal' work.
  • THIRD LoR: Please include your 'Glocal' research, program implementation, advocacy or activism by someone more connected with your work in this space.

We seek applicants who embrace and reflect diversity in the broadest sense. Columbia University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. 

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Rachel T. Moresky, Columbia University Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director or Medical Education Coordinator Ms. Aileen Ruiz Mendez.