On 8th September the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) hosted an online event: “Global Emergency Medicine Day – Innovation, Partnerships and Opportunity”.  An excellent programme was put together by Richard Lowsby, one of the founding members of GECCo and who has served for several years on the RCEM Global Emergency Medicine (GEM) committee.

Lots of other familiar GECCo faces were dotted throughout the day. Zosia Bredow was invited to chair the session on Global Health Partnerships.  Joanna Quinn, who wears lots of GEM hats (as EMTA representative for GEM, sitting on both GEM and EMTA committees) and is a key supporter of GECCo, also chaired the session entitled “Advocacy and Global EM Research”. Within this session it was like a GECCo party: Anisa Jafar presented the project she is working on with the RCEM GEM committee “Mapping global health in UK emergency medicine”; Gaby Prager expertly took us through some of the top research papers in GEM; and a new face to GECCo (but a familiar one to GEM in the UK) Saleyha Ahsan explored Healthcare in Conflict.

If you missed the session, you can catch up until March 2023, just have a look at the RCEM website.