World: #Ambulance! A learning initiative for pre-hospital emergency staff and volunteers

We have different job roles, practices, and challenges. But the risk of violence is one thing almost everyone has in common, even in peaceful settings.

Despite the potentially serious impact of violence, shared experience, resources and training available to us may be very limited.

In October 2016, over 700 pre-hospital emergency workers from 70 countries signed up for the initiative. In four weeks, we documented 72 front-line incidents of violence and similar risks, and we came up with practical approaches to dealing with such risks.

In 2017, we are inviting you to join this global Community of Action to make access to health care and its provision safer and better protected.

Who this initiative is for

• If you work or have worked in an ambulance or other emergency health crew, in peace or war, we urge you to join.
• Nonmedical staff and volunteers working to ensure the safety and security of emergency health workers are also encouraged to join.

What you will gain

1. Take part in a global effort to protect ambulance and other emergency health workers.
2. Widen your grasp of pre‑hospital emergency care, beyond your local context.
3. Share problems and, with peers from all over the world, learn how to solve them.
4. Improve your risk awareness in your own country and setting.
5. Work with your peers to create a course project that you can use in your work.

• Apply for the Summer course by 4 June 2017