Our People

My primary area of interest is emergency care development, with a focus on health economics, system strengthening and resilience. I have consulted for the World Bank and the World Health Organization. I am also the founding chair of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine Portuguese Translation Task Force and am passionate about expanding access to high quality emergency care in Lusophone countries. Through the RISE project, I support emergency and critical care capacitation in several countries. 

I completed medical school at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and my emergency medicine residency training at John Hopkins University School of Medicine. During residency as part of the RISE COVID-19 Response Project I served as a technical consultant for clinical teams in Ghana, India, Lesotho, and various other Low-to-middle income countries (LMICs). I went on to complete my International Emergency Medicine & Public Health Fellowship at Johns Hopkins and my Master of Public Health at JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health. Through my work with CGEC as a WHO Collaborating Center, I became a Master Trainer in the WHO BEC Course and helped implement BEC courses in various LMICs. Through my training and experiences I have gained hands-on experience in emergency care delivery in low-resource settings and have garnered skills in health systems strengthening and building emergency care capacity. I hope to be a leader in global emergency medicine and improve emergency medicine education and care delivery across the world.   

Before having the privilege of joining the faculty in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., as an assistant professor of emergency medicine, I was core faculty at the emergency medicine residency at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Kigali (CHUK) in Kigali, Rwanda, under the Human Resources for Health Program. More recent work has involved emergency systems development on behalf of sidHARTe at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health as senior advisor on emergency health systems and medical education. Over the past 12 years, I have collaborated on projects with USAID, UNAIDS, National Institutes of Health, local and international non-governmental organizations and governments in Brazil, Botswana, El Salvador, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Mozambique, Oman, Rwanda, UAE and Uganda. 

My main research interests are the ways that, through education and training, emergency medicine practitioners can become a first-order determinant of improved patient outcomes, from district to tertiary hospital levels in resource-restricted settings. I have specific interests in the role of point-of-care ultrasonography, medical education and evidence-based emergency medical provider training. 

My primary research focuses on studying the burden of medical emergencies, critical illness and trauma in low- and middle-income countries in order to develop data-driven quality improvement and capacity building initiatives. I have collaborated internationally with clinicians and researchers in Ethiopia, India, South Africa and Israel and have participated in a number of educational projects teaching context-appropriate critical care practices to clinicians in sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, I am working with collaborators in Ethiopia to build critical care research capacity by developing, implementing and evaluating ICU registries. 

My interests are in international pediatric emergency care and emergency planning and preparedness. My international experiences have spanned clinical care, pediatric emergency education, and research on infant sepsis in Rukunjiri, Uganda, clinical care and nutritional assessment in Yemen. Currently, I am working with collaborators internationally on validation of digital auscultation. As the pediatric emergency medicine director of disaster management, I lead the Johns Hopkins Children's Center emergency management committee and Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Pediatric Subcommittee. I also work regionally and nationally in the preparedness of communities for all hazard disasters. 

My research focus is disaster medicine and public health preparedness and, in particular, issues related to crowd disasters. At Johns Hopkins, I serve on the leadership group of the Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) and was involved in its unified command during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. I am co-principal investigator on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-sponsored project related to recognizing best practices in public health emergency response leadership training that is in its final stages and am currently working with the World Health Organization Kobe Center in Japan to investigate minimum health data sets in disasters. I have been involved in the planning and evaluation of disaster drills domestically and internationally, including most recently in Karachi, Pakistan, and Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I have served as a member of the Committee on Evidence-Based Practices for Public Health Preparedness and Response with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, which released its report, Evidence-Based Practices for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response: Assessment of and Recommendations for the Field, last year. 

My primary focus is supporting frontline nurses to complete robust and actional evidence-based practice, research and quality improvement projects. As an editor and author of the most recent Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Model and Guidelines for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals, my goal is to give nurses tools and skills to ensure they are providing care based on best evidence. In addition to this work, I continue to practice as a clinical nurse in the adult emergency department as well as adjunct clinical faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. My research work has focused on involving frontline nurses in all aspects of the clinical research process, global infectious disease, and capacity building. I work with nurses in the U.S. and globally to advance not only their own practice, but the profession and science of nursing through scholarly inquiry.     

I completed medical school at AT Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona and emergency medicine residency training at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, NY. I previously completed an African Studies minor and a Master in Public Health degree from Tufts University and have spent time in Cameroon, Tanzania, Guatemala, Uganda, and South Africa gaining medical systems experience and conducting research. I completed the International Emergency Medicine and Public Health Fellowship at Johns Hopkins in 2024, during which I spent a year in Ghana leading a research study funded by the NIH Fogarty International Center. The Pathway to Care for Patients with Acute Infectious Illnesses in Ghana (PATHCARE) focused on health system utilization and clinical care for patients with infections and sepsis. I am also on WHO teams continually developing educational courses and standards for emergency medicine, critical care, and sepsis. Through my work with CGEC, I have acted as a technical assistant on the USAID/ JHPIEGO Covid Test-to-Treat Program (T2T). I continue to work on multiple systems development, quality improvement, and implementation science projects with CGEC and collaborators at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Ghana.

Dr. Grunauer's multidisciplinary research addresses global health challenges across diverse domains. Her work encompasses optimizing respiratory support for patients, enhancing emergency and critical care response strategies locally and globally, improving integrated models of care in intensive care units worldwide, strengthening health systems through training and medical education, prevention, surveillance and response in GHS through a One-Health approach and Mental Health and Humanism in Medicine.

Dr. Bonney is a Research Fellow with the Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group at the Kumasi Collaborative Centre for Research in Tropical Medicine. His keen interest in Research, Emergency and Disaster Medicine has propelled him to work with major players in the health industry and he is always ready to engage in more collaborations to improve healthcare and research in the sub-region. 

Dr. Menbeu Sultan is an associate professor of emergency medicine and critical care working at St. Paul’s hospital millennium medical college, Ethiopia. He serves as an emergency medicine specialist doctor, intensivist and public health expert. He is the director of the intensive care division and director of the intensive care fellowship program in the college. His research interest area includes critical care in low resource settings, emergency medicine system and clinical guidelines. He is involved in the development of multiple documents to be used at national and international level. He is immediate past president for Ethiopian society of emergency and critical care professionals and current vice president for African federation in emergency medicine.