NEW ARTICLE IN Think global health: Rohingya Exile and the Limits of Emergency Aid
Emergency medicine teaches you how to respond when everything is falling apart. But in places like Cox’s Bazar, home to more than a million Rohingya refugees, the crisis hasn’t ended. It has simply endured. What was once an emergency has become a permanent condition, where generations are now born into displacement, and short-term aid continues to operate in systems that require long-term solutions.
The recent article from EP executive director, Darren Cuthbert, in Think Global Health, explores the limits of emergency aid in prolonged crises and what it means for how we approach global health moving forward. This is something we’ve seen across our work with EP; that emergency care is essential, but it must be paired with continuity and systems that last.
