Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies (ARHE) is a Special Interest Group of the Society for Medical Anthropology. The purpose of the group is to network among members to be able to rapidly respond to developing public health issues and emergencies. The overall mission of ARHE is to engage and collaborate with colleagues working in the field of public health and infectious disease in emergency and humanitarian contexts. A key goal of the SIG is to provide an effective communication platform for colleagues to generate discussion, raise awareness, quickly deliver preliminary findings from the field and disseminate relevant information.