Katherine (Kate) Douglass

Dr. Kate Douglass is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Global Health at George Washington University. She completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at Drexel University in 2005, then came to GWU to complete fellowship training in International Emergency Medicine as well as a Master of Public Health. She has served as the director of the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship at GWU from 2007 – 2020, and again from 2023, and she is currently the Departmental Section Chief of Global Emergency Medicine. 

Dr. Douglass is specifically interested in international emergency medical systems development with a focus on sustainability, cost effectiveness, and effective educational interventions. She also focuses on the global impact of road traffic injuries, and implications for emergency medical systems development. She has worked extensively with international medical programs and policy initiatives, including projects in India, Saudi Arabia, Zambia, Turkey, Ethiopia and Peru. She currently directs ten post-graduate EM education programs across the nation of India, graduating trained and qualified Emergency Physicians to address India’s severe Emergency Medicine Human Resource shortage and injury epidemic. She has worked over her career with consensus groups at the national and international level to develop guidelines for trainees embarking on global health experiences. 

Dr. Douglass also served as a Senior Technical Clinical advisor for FHI360 from 2021 – 2023 as part of the global COVID response team. In this role, she supported a robust profile of countries in their pandemic response planning, providing technical expertise. Her passion for global EM systems development has been bolstered by the COVID pandemic, a crisis that further clarifies the universal need for effective emergency and acute care.