Five interlocking activities
The institute runs through five activities, each designed to compound the value of the others, from federated data and structured publications to convening, training, and industry research.
Ukraine
Each activity is anchored by the frontline experience of Ukraine. The data, the protocols, the case studies, the training material, and the research questions all begin with what Ukrainian military medical services have learned at first hand, and expand from there to allied militaries.
Federated research environment
A federated Trusted Research Environment holding structured outcome and treatment data from contributing militaries, with data from Ukraine as its founding corpus. Researchers apply for access, work inside the environment, and export only aggregated results.
Case-study and protocol publications
Structured case-study and protocol publications drawing on the frontline experience of the institute's network, Ukrainian military medical practice first, allied experience thereafter. These are the institute's public intellectual products.
Annual international conference
An annual international conference convening the verified community of military medical practitioners and researchers, where the institute's work is presented, peer-reviewed, and translated into practice.
Training, certification, and education
Training, certification, and educational programmes for combat medics, surgeons, and instructors, grounded in the institute's evidence base and developed with contributing military medical services.
Industry research collaborations
Co-funded research with companies developing battlefield medical technology, contracted through the institute's trading subsidiary. Industry research benefits product roadmaps and the institute's mission, under transparent governance.
How the activities compound
Each activity strengthens the others. The federated dataset feeds research publications; publications and the annual conference attract serious researchers and clinicians into the community; that community generates the protocols and training materials the institute can then certify; and credibility built through publications and training is what allows industry research collaborations to be governed transparently rather than opaquely.
Talk to us
Researchers, defence medical services, governments, and industry partners are all welcome to start a conversation.