Oral history interview with Tony Redmond

Interview: 34 minutes 55 seconds

Born and brought up in Manchester, Tony Redmond OBE is Professor of International Emergency Medicine at The University of Manchester and a Consultant in Trauma and Emergency Medicine. He is Lead for Global Health at the Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre (MAHSC) and Manchester Medical School and Deputy Director of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at The University of Manchester. In addition, he is the Director of the UK International Emergency Trauma Register, which coordinates the national surgical response to overseas disasters funded by the Department for International Development of the UK government. Having trained in emergency medicine in the UK and the US and as a registered specialist in emergency medicine with a special interest in the management of severe injury, Professor Redmond has provided emergency humanitarian medical assistance for over 20 years, responding to natural disasters, major incidents, conflicts and complex emergencies throughout the world including, the UK Ebola response. He was invited by DFID to re-establish health services in Kosovo with KFOR and, with DFID and the British Army, evacuated the Bogujevcis and Besim Kadriu to Manchester.

In this interview Tony talks about his experience in medicine following the 1999 Liberation of Kosovo as a leader in the humanitarian response.