
The Evolution of Global Health Experience: What Physicians Should — and Shouldn’t — Expect from Projects Abroad
Massachusetts Medical Society article. Highlights MGH Global Health and includes quotes from Mass General physicians Adeline Boatin, Hilarie Cranmer and Paul Biddinger.

Disaster Response Teams Mount Hurricane Effort
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.

Medical Response Teams Outline Situations Faced in Puerto Rico - State House News Service
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.

MGH team in Puerto Rico faces hurdles in aid effort - Boston Herald
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.

Mass General sends 26 medical pros to help Puerto Rico hurricane victims - Boston Herald
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.

MGH responds: Hurricane help - Mass General News
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.

As Hurricane Maria Devastation Endures, Bostonians Look For Ways To Help - WBUR
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.

MGH Team In Texas To Treat Patients Hit By Harvey And By Chronic Health Problems
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.

MGH Team In Texas To Treat Patients Hit By Harvey And By Chronic Health Problems - WGBH
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.

Mass General Staffers Are Helping Hurricane Victims
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.

Mass General teams deploy in response to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma
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.

Meet a doctor from Boston who’s helping prevent the spread of cholera in Haiti – Medium
Article about Mass General physician Naima Joseph, who deployed to Haiti as a volunteer with the International Medical Corps in response to Hurricane Matthew.

The World Must Not Abandon Haiti to the Devastation Left by Hurricane Matthew - TIME
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

Hurricane Matthew: Mass General Mounts Response
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.

Hurricane Matthew: Food, Water Shortages Threaten Haiti Victims - Wall Street Journal
Includes comments by MGH disaster-response specialist Dr. Lynn Black

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

Workshop and Poster Call: 2016 Health & Humanitarian Logistics Conference
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.

China and Russia Teams Join WHO’s Emergency Medical Team Initiative
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.

Nepal Earthquake: Second MGH Team Responds
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 heads to Nepal – Boston Globe
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.

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

Medical team from MGH going to help in Nepal after quake – WHDH
A team from Boston's Mass General Hospital is heading to Nepal to lend a helping hand.

Mass General Volunteers Provide Care in Nepal – Project HOPE
Covers MGH volunteers who deployed to Nepal as part of an international relief effort.

Team Of MGH Doctors And Nurses Headed To Nepal To Treat Earthquake Victims – WBUR
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.

Nepal Disaster Hits Home In New England – WBZ-TV, Ch. 4
quotes MGH physician Hilarie Cranmer

Boston doctors, rescuers rush to help Nepal effort – Boston Globe
quotes MGH physician Stuart Harris

MGH docs spring to action in Nepal – Boston Herald
article quotes MGH physicians Hilarie Cranmer and Stuart Harris

What’s on the minds of those heading for Ebola’s front lines? – PBS Newshour
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.

Training to Help Ebola Patients in West Africa – AP
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.

The thrill of the drill – MGH Hotline
Thirteen MGH staff members recently traveled to Palo Alto, California, to participate in a mock humanitarian disaster at the Stanford Medical Campus.

When Disaster Strikes (Proto)
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

Typhoon-Response Nurses Reflect Mass General’s International Mission
Whether responding to an earthquake or working to better maternal health, Mass General nurses are improving care and advancing their profession worldwide.

Disaster relief tour gives Brockton woman appreciation of home
coverage of Mass General employee April Madrigal, who traveled to Tapaz, Philippines, to assist in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.

Typhoon Haiyan: Looking back and moving forward
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.