June 2026: Rwanda’s Emergency Care Blueprint

Host Amy Faith Ho, MD, MPH, FACEP, welcomes Dr. Tsion Firew to discuss the systematic and sustainable nuances of global health infrastructure. Dr. Firew, the chair of emergency medicine residency at Africa Health Sciences University in Rwanda and an associate professor at New York University, shares pearls for shifting from short-term medical missions to localized systems building, navigating frontline clinical protocols during a deadly Marburg virus outbreak, and balancing the personal and professional demands of international emergency medicine.

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