Director

Rachel T. Moresky, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Program on Forced Migration and Health and in the Columbia University Department of Emergency Medicine, as well as an Honorary appointment at the University of Rwanda, College of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Over the past 20 years, Dr. Moresky has combined her expertise in engineering, emergency medicine, and global public health inequities through her work on improving complex adaptive emergency care systems by strengthening the integration of high-quality primary care and acute care systems in the Global South.  In 2004 she founded the Columbia University sidHARTe - Strengthening Emergency Systems Program. The sidHARTe Program has partnered with national and local governments, universities, medical associations, and NGOs through technical exchange, data-driven policy development, and implementation support and science.  The sidHARTe Program has worked with governments in India, Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, Honduras, and Cambodia with support from NGOs, foundations, USAID, CDC, Global Fund, and the World Bank.

Dr. Moresky is also the founding director of the Columbia University Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship, a program that mentors Emergency Physicians in humanitarian action, disaster response, and health systems implementation research. Since 2006 the Fellowship has produced global health leaders. These former fellows’ have taken leadership roles at organizations such as the WHO, Global Health Cluster, IRC, MSF, IMC, CDC, Ministries of Health, and Emergency Medicine programs worldwide.