Eric David Rasmussen (born March 17, 1957) is an American physician specializing in methods for global disaster response and their intersection with modern medical ethics.

[1] Rasmussen spent 25 years on active duty with the US Navy pioneering the specialty of humanitarian medicine[2] inside the military,[3] working to improve healthcare within highly vulnerable populations in war zones and in the aftermath of natural disasters.

In August 2014 he was appointed Core Faculty[11] in both Medicine and Global Grand Challenges at Singularity University within the NASA Ames Research Center.

After working in Mexico, Yemen, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Chile, and Ukraine, plus several countries in Asia and the Western Pacific, Rasmussen and Hatoum developed IHS into a "profit-for-purpose"[21] company.

IHS is focused on technical methods for climate change adaptation, especially for vulnerable populations in a Low Elevation Coastal Zone.

[23] He is currently, in 2024, a member of the Loomis Council[24] at the Stimson Center in Washington DC, the managing director of the Applied Hope Foundation,[25] and a National Fellow[26] of The Explorers Club.