UA-MED at the Ukraine Expert Conference 2025 in Berlin
On 3 July 2025, the Ukraine Expert Conference on Civil Society, Resilience & Reconstruction (UEC 2025) brought together leading NGOs, academics, policymakers, and frontline practitioners at the Französische Friedrichstadtkirche in Berlin. Organized by Be an Angel e.V., the European Ukrainian Bridge, and the Evangelische Akademie , the event featured panels and presentations on humanitarian aid, medical response, investment, reconstruction, and resilience.
The conference served as a high-level platform to exchange strategies for supporting Ukraine during wartime and planning for long-term recovery.
Within the Medical Response session, Thomas Humphrey, a member of UA-MED, presented how the Alliance evolved from ad hoc wartime collaboration into a structured platform uniting over 100 NGOs and 20 academic institutions. He emphasized UA-MED’s role as a coordination hub for observerships, training, and conferences, showcasing initiatives like antimicrobial stewardship dashboards in Lviv and observerships at Stanford and Harvard
Later, during the Medical Response panel, Dr. Douglas Davis, UA-MED leadership team, underlined the urgent need to pool resources and avoid redundancy as traditional aid funding declines. He described Ukraine not only as a country in need but also as a crucible of medical innovation, with frontline lessons already influencing NATO medical guidelines. Davis also stressed that UA-MED is pioneering innovative approaches to maximize impact by combining NGO collaboration with new models of sustainability.
Together, Humphrey and Davis demonstrated how UA-MED embodies the spirit of UEC 2025: resilience through collaboration, wisdom through friendship, and innovation through necessity.
