Using the GEMLR as a proxy for emergency care engagement in global health

A team brought together through GECCo (including Gaby Prager, Jack Ingham, Pete Jones, Hattie Kennedy, Claire Bromley, Haarith Ndiaye and Anisa Jafar) have been working on a project together since early 2021. This project explores whether the Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review or GEMLR can be used to tell us more about the kind of work those in emergency care are doing when it comes to global health. So far the team have presented work at RCEM’s 2021 Annual Scientific Conference, IFEM’s ICEM 2021 conference (online from Dubai) and EUSEM’s 2021 annual congress in Lisbon. Gaby, Jack and Anisa were also invited to deliver a round table discussion showing some of their preliminary data at the IHSA’s 2021 conference in Paris.

Whilst the team are working to deliver this work in the form of a peer-reviewed publication, Jack’s use of data visualisation techniques will make the data much more interactive and open for others to use and understand. Watch this space…

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