(Cover photo caption: Representatives from Stanford’s Emergency Medicine International (SEMI) and Stanford Medicine Global Strategy meet with visitors from India’s EMRI team on Stanford campus in spring 2025. Top row, from left to right: Dr. G V Ramana Rao, Dr. Mohit Jana, Grayson Burdon, Dr. Matt Strehlow, Dr. Raja Narsingr Rao. Bottom Row, from left to right: Dr. Ramsekhar Manchikalapati, Maria Gonzalez, Dr. Krishnam Raju, Dr. Roni Brar

Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH) Faculty Fellows Drs. Matthew Strehlow and Peter Acker from Stanford Emergency Medicine International (SEMI) along with Grayson Burdon from Stanford Medicine Global Strategy recently hosted representatives from their long-term emergency medicine partners EMRI (Emergency Management and Research Institute) in India. Michele Barry, Director of the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, also welcomed the visiting researchers.

EMRI serves 1 billion in India, transporting over 110,000 people daily to and from care, and has collaborated closely with our faculty for several decades to improve EMS, research, and specific health challenges.