Global Disaster Response Team Member Fabio Racy, MD co-authors special New England Journal of Medicine article regarding the contentious mortality rate in Puerto Rico related to Hurricane Maria.

Massachusetts Medical Society's Vital Signs talked with physicians connected with the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Global Health about what clinicians can expect to bring to, and get from, their global health experiences.

Covers deployment to Puerto Rico for Hurricane Maria by Mass General Pharmacist Karen M. Ryle, MS, RPh (page 4)

Palliative Medicine and Hospice Care article by Mass General physicans Annekathryn Goodman, MD, MPH and Lynn Black, MD, MPH

Massachusetts Medical Society article. Highlights MGH Global Health and includes quotes from Mass General physicians Adeline Boatin, Hilarie Cranmer and Paul Biddinger.

Mass General’s response to the need for dialysis professionals on hurricane-battered Dominica reflects the versatility and readiness of its global disaster response program.

Deployed to Puerto Rico in November after Hurricane Maria, Massachusetts General Hospital staff saw local emergency rooms "overwhelmed" with patients they knew their team could care for, but lacked the logistical capacity to do so, the team's leader said Wednesday.

he team of Massachusetts General Hospital medical professionals who deployed to Puerto Rico to assist the thousands of people who have been struggling without proper care since Hurricane Maria decimated the island in September were blown away by the scale of destruction.

Massachusetts General Hospital medical professionals deployed yesterday to Puerto Rico, where they’ll spend 16 days helping the thousands of people who have been living without health care since Hurricane Maria devastated the island in September.

This month several MGH staff members deployed to Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico in response to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. The individuals were part of the federal Trauma and Critical Care Team, MA-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT), Arizona-1 DMAT, Colorado-3 DMAT, Project Hope, MGH Center for Global Health and the Logistics Response Assistance Team.

A five-person team of nurses and physicians from Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital was asked to help with a hospital's hemodialysis unit (for people with kidney failure) in the island nation of Dominica.

A medical team from Massachusetts General Hospital is in the small city of Rosenberg, Texas, about 45 minutes southwest of Houston. The city was badly flooded during Tropical Storm Harvey when the Brazos River overflowed. In the weeks since the storm, the MGH team has set up a mobile clinic in a local church.

A medical team from Massachusetts General Hospital is in the small city of Rosenberg, Texas, about 45 minutes southwest of Houston. The city was badly flooded during Tropical Storm Harvey when the Brazos River overflowed. In the weeks since the storm, the MGH team has set up a mobile clinic in a local church.

With Houston grappling with the devastation of Hurricane Harvey and the state of Florida girding for Hurricane Irma, disaster response professionals from Massachusetts General Hospital have deployed to both areas to aid in relief efforts.

Seventeen Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) staff members were deployed today as part of two teams headed to Texas and Florida in response to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. These individuals are in addition to four staff members who recently returned from Texas after assisting with the federal Trauma and Critical Care Team.

Article about Mass General physician Naima Joseph, who deployed to Haiti as a volunteer with the International Medical Corps in response to Hurricane Matthew.

Article co-written by Dr. Lynn Black, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and a director on the board of the St. Boniface Haiti Foundation

Mass General disaster response teams are on the ground in Haiti and the southern United States, helping victims of Hurricane Matthew recover from its devastation.

Includes comments by MGH disaster-response specialist Dr. Lynn Black

Suicide bombing at Istanbul Ataturk Airport, Turkey, kills at least 28 people, injures 60.

The HHL Conference brings together speakers and attendees from non-government organizations (NGOs), industry, government, military, and academia in a forum to identify common challenges, share innovative research, and prioritize strategies, policies, and investment. The agenda features plenary panel discussions, interactive workshops, poster sessions, and ample opportunities for networking.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization has presented letters of certification to Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) from China and Russia confirming that they are capable of providing mobile emergency field hospitals and staff members in response to natural disasters and disease outbreaks.

Amid continues calls for international help, a second Mass General medical team is responding to the devastating Nepal earthquake.

Another team from Massachusetts General Hospital left for Nepal on Thursday morning to help with relief efforts following the April 25 earthquake that claimed more than 8,000 lives and injured more than 17,000 people.

Making swift diagnosis and treatment decisions with little information is among the issues faced by doctors and nurses responding to the Nepal earthquake.

A team from Boston's Mass General Hospital is heading to Nepal to lend a helping hand.

Covers MGH volunteers who deployed to Nepal as part of an international relief effort.

As the death toll following a massive earthquake last Saturday in Nepal continues to rise, and more than 10,000 injured men, women and children await treatment, a group of nurses and physicians from Massachusetts General Hospital will join those working to keep survivors alive.

quotes MGH physician Hilarie Cranmer

quotes MGH physician Stuart Harris

article quotes MGH physicians Hilarie Cranmer and Stuart Harris

Coverage of training by the CDC to prepare healthcare workers to assist with the fight against Ebola. Includes commentary by Dr. Miriam Aschkenasy, Deputry Director of Global Disaster Response, Center for Global Health.

As the Ebola crisis continues in West Africa, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is training doctors, nurses and other health care workers going to work in Ebola Treatment Units in West Africa. Includes commentary by Dr. Miriam Aschkenasy, Deputry Director of Global Disaster Response, Center for Global Health.

Thirteen MGH staff members recently traveled to Palo Alto, California, to participate in a mock humanitarian disaster at the Stanford Medical Campus.

Dr. Miriam Aschkenasy, Deputy Director of Global Disaster Response at the MGH Center for Global Health, discusses the MGH response to Typhoon Haiyan and the emerging field of Disaster Response

Whether responding to an earthquake or working to better maternal health, Mass General nurses are improving care and advancing their profession worldwide.

coverage of Mass General employee April Madrigal, who traveled to Tapaz, Philippines, to assist in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.

On Feb. 12, the center hosted “Global Disaster Response at Mass General: Reflections on Typhoon Haiyan and the Philippines,” in the O’Keeffe Auditorium. Part seminar, part reflection, part reunion, the event represented the culmination of months of work and served as a forum for MGH volunteers to share their stories with the community.