Humanitarian Medicine and Disaster Relief

Professor Tony Redmond is Professor Emeritus of International Emergency Medicine at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester, and Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine at Keele University. He is the founder of UK-Med, the frontline medical aid charity and served as its chairman for twenty-nine years until 2023. He was awarded an OBE in 1994 for his work providing humanitarian assistance in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. Professor Redmond continues to work with the WHO, with whom he helped set up the Emergency Medical Teams Initiative, setting standards within the disaster relief field. He is a member of the executive committee of the Faculty of Remote Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare, based at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

1. Humanitarianism 2. Sudden Onset Disasters 3. Specific Hazards 4. Responding to Humanitarian Emergencies 5. The Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) Initiative 6. Armed Conflict and Complex Emergencies 7. Deploying 8. Needs Assessments 9. Clinical considerations 10. Infectious Diseases and Outbreak Response 11. Triage 12. Working in another country