Margaret Salmon has academic training in clinical emergency medicine and public health. She received her MD from University of Washington and Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health where she studied how conflict and complex emergencies affect civilian populations. Before emergency medicine, Margaret worked in public health in Kenya, Rajasthan India, Nicaragua and the Democratic Republic of the Congo where she is research advisor to the Residency program at HEAL Africa in Goma. Margaret is a graduate of the HELP (health emergencies in large populations) course of the International Committee of the Red Cross/Crescent and Standards in Reproductive Health in Conflict course of UNFPA. She designed the Responsibility to Protect workshop and simulation for the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University. More recently, Margaret completed her residency in emergency medicine at University of California San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital. During this time she has published extensively on technology and low resource settings.
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