Amelia Pousson, MD, MPH

Amelia Pousson, MD, MPH, CTropMed, FACEP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University and works clinically at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, MD, USA. Her recent work has involved medical education and emergency systems development at Johns Hopkins University as Education Lead for the Center for Global Emergency Care and Clerkship Co-Director in Emergency Medicine after previously serving as the Senior Advisor on Emergency Health Systems & Medical Education at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Prior work included extensive curricula design, development and implementation in support of emergency medicine residencies in both India and Rwanda. Dr. Pousson completed medical school at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and her emergency medicine residency training at Christiana Care in Delaware. She is also a graduate of the International Emergency Medicine & Global Public Health Fellowship of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University and the Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine with a Masters in Public Health from the George Washington Milken Institute School of Public Health. Over the past 15 years, she has collaborated on projects with USAID, UNAIDS, the NIH, local and international NGOs and governments in Brazil, Botswana, El Salvador, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Mozambique, Oman, Rwanda, UAE and Uganda.

Dr. Pousson's main research interests are exploring strategies for making emergency medicine learning accessible for all as well as the ways that, through education and training, emergency medicine practitioners can become a first-order determinant of improved patient outcomes, at all healthcare system levels and in both resource-rich and resource-restricted settings. She has specific interests in emerging infectious disease, medical education using simulation and flipped classroom models and evidence-based emergency medical provider training.