Recent coverage of the team.
Justine Davies
Our article published in The Lancet Global Health suggests that before investing in expensive ambulance systems and trauma centres, policy makers should pause to think what is fitting for their setting, as these services don't always save lives. Certainly, patients using ambulance systems seem to fare better when those services are well coordinated by emergency medical dispatch services.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(26)00215-9/fulltext
Justine Davies
The team spent a week at WHO working with Lee Wallis, Agnieszka Ignatowitz, and Katinka Weber, to turn outputs from our global consensus work - funded by the Laerdal Foundation - into tractable guidance and tools for countries wishing to develop their own pre hospital care emergency medical dispatch services.
Ophelia Keating
Our study, which showed outcomes of people admitted to hospital after injuries in 4 low or middle income countries was published in The Lancet Global Health and was also covered in Science.
https://scienmag.com/injury-study-of-9000-patients-reveals-trauma-care-systems-fail-half-of-survivors/
Davies, Jayaraman, Stassen · Developing tools and guidance
In June 2026, we hosted a global consensus meeting to agree the frameworks and tools and guidance needed to develop emergency medical dispatch systems throughout the world. Participants were policy makers and service providers in emergency care in all 6 world regions. Consensus was reached using the Utstein process and the meeting was funded by the Laerdal Foundation.
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