The Babali Emergency and Disaster Research (BEDR) provides a forum for original research and scholarship about health care delivery, organization, management, workforce, policy and research methods relevant to emergency and disaster in medical doctor, nursing, midwifery and other health related professions. The BEDR aims to support evidence informed policy and practice by publishing research, systematic and other scholarly reviews, critical discussion, and commentary of the highest standard. The journal particularly welcomes studies that aim to evaluate and understand complex health care interventions and health policies and which employ the most rigorous designs and methods appropriate for the research question of interest. The journal also seeks to advance the quality of research by publishing methodological papers introducing or elaborating on analytic techniques, measures, and research methods.