Strategic Objective 2:​ Emergency Response & Capacity Building

Session Description:

EMTs from civilian and military background are often working in the same areas, within the health response. Although frequent elements of cooperation might be present, all the existing frameworks fail to address specificities of interaction between medical teams from civilian and military background, therefore the EMT initiative has taken the role of convening these discussions.

The session will present, in an interactive form, the challenges from EMTs deployed in different responses, and instigate a debate about the concrete operational challenges on civil-military coordination. The second half of the session will focus on defining the distinctive elements of medical civil-military coordination, in opposition to general civil-military coordination.