The Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) initiative plays a vital role in building this stronger and more resilient global health emergency architecture, both by driving its formation and by contributing to a rapidly deployable global health emergency corps. The Initiative and EMTs bring something unique to health emergency preparedness and response – they bring standards, professionalism, reliability, scalability, coordination, and the ability and willingness to rapidly deploy wherever and whenever they are most needed. Most importantly, EMTs save lives.