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We argue that, far from being a rigid and immutable response, the kits reflected a (not universally realized) desire to standardize and control both supplies and medical care from international organizations. As such, humanitarian medical practice remained a disputed field in which each object or drug was negotiated at the risk of creating innovation traps. Coming at a time of increasingly global logistics capacities, the Emergency Health Kits became a central feature of a more coordinated global marketplace of humanitarian aid. The kits\u2019 promise to provide rapid transport of emergency supplies to crisis settings across the world was often experienced as a construct, with long delays and logjams in certain regions. Even so, humanitarian organizations were agents of globalization because they imagined a system of centralized production in the Global North and supply to isolated and\/or insecure locations across the world.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s1740022825100223","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,22]],"date-time":"2025-12-22T07:43:37Z","timestamp":1766389417000},"page":"421-443","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/policypage","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Unpacking the Emergency Health Kit of international humanitarian medical aid, 1978\u201390: How humanitarian standards and supply chains became global"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Maria","family":"Cullen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/027m9bs27","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Manchester"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7842-6800","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bertrand","family":"Taithe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/027m9bs27","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Manchester"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Janelle","family":"Winters","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/027m9bs27","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Manchester"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,22]]},"container-title":["Journal of Global History"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/S1740022825100223","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,11]],"date-time":"2026-06-11T10:51:04Z","timestamp":1781175064000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/product\/identifier\/S1740022825100223\/type\/journal_article"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,22]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2026,7]]}},"alternative-id":["S1740022825100223"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/s1740022825100223","relation":{},"ISSN":["1740-0228","1740-0236"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1740-0228","type":"print"},{"value":"1740-0236","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,22]]},"assertion":[{"value":"\u00a9 The Author(s), 2025. 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