Taylor Wilson Burkholder

Dr. Burkholder is an associate professor of clinical emergency medicine in the USC Department of Emergency Medicine and the Director of Academic Programs at the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health. He trained in emergency medicine at the Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine and then completed a fellowship in global emergency medicine at the University of Colorado. He is a volunteer consultant for the World Health Organization’s Emergency, Trauma and Acute Care programme, and he currently focuses on issues of health service innovation implementation and the governance of emergency care systems in low and middle-income countries. Taylor’s other academic interests include rights-based approaches to emergency care, ultrasound in low-resource settings, emerging infectious diseases, and medical education.

• Georgetown University — BSBA — 05/2009 — Business Administration
• Tulane University School of Medicine — MD — 05/2013 — Medicine
• Tulane University School of Public Health — MPH — 05/2013 — International Health & Development
• Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine — 06/2017 — Emergency Medicine
• University of Colorado — 06/2018 — Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship

• Evaluating the Implementation of the WHO Emergency Care Toolkit in Zambia
  SC-CTSI (NIH/SCATS) · Apr 1, 2023 – Mar 31, 2026 · Role: Principal Investigator

• Global health
• emergency care
• acute care
• human rights
• health system governance
• implementation science
• triage
• service delivery

• Gruskin, Sofia
• Demetriades, Demetrios
• Inaba, Kenji
• Brown, Hilary
• Ferguson, Laura
• Abramson, Tiffany