Stephanie Kayden, MD, MPH

Stephanie Kayden, MD, MPH

Stephanie Kayden, MD, MPH

Stephanie Kayden, MD, MPH, is an emergency physician with a focus on international humanitarian response and leadership. She is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she holds the Brigham Distinguished Chair of Emergency Medicine and serves as the Deputy Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Kayden is Director of the International Emergency Department Leadership Institute, which trains emergency medicine leaders from around the world to improve the quality of day-to-day emergency medical care. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness and is editor-in-chief of the book Emergency Department Leadership and Management: Best Principles and Practice. She is widely published and has given hundreds of lectures worldwide on humanitarian response and leadership.

Dr. Kayden received her undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Harvard University and her medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at Yale and a fellowship in International Emergency Medicine at Harvard. She has a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Kayden has worked to improve emergency medical systems, humanitarian aid and disaster response in more than 40 countries. Dr. Kayden helped develop emergency medical care in Bhutan, Fiji, Nepal, Japan, Germany, Serbia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, and Israel and the Palestinian Territories. She provided disaster relief to survivors of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan, helped rebuild health systems for Burundian refugees in Tanzania, and led a team to improve rural public health in Uganda, and published research on the effects of conflict on health in Liberia. In 2010, Dr. Kayden helped establish one of the largest field hospitals for survivors of the earthquake in Haiti. She has taught health and human rights issues in more than 20 countries. She continues to train international disaster responders and emergency workers around the world.

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