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All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a live teleconference and webinar to learn more about how you can be a part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. Human Resources Officers will discuss requirements and the recruitment process, a Doctors Without Borders aid worker will talk about life in the field, and participants will be able to ask questions.
SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE REGISTER BELOW.
Location
Via teleconference and webinar.
Participants will need a phone line to listen to the presentation and an internet connection to watch the optional (but recommended) online slideshow presentation.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
Applying the latest digital tools to humanitarian responses and global health projects has always been difficult due to persistent challenges like remote locations, unreliable electricity, and underdeveloped communications infrastructure. Increasingly, however, there have been applications, platforms, and database sharing innovations that have been successfully deployed in places like Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, and other contexts.
Join us as four information technology experts discuss what it takes to adopt and adapt current technologies for use in field programs around the world, using up-to-date technologies to help address the needs of the world’s most vulnerable populations.
This event is FREE, open to the public, and fully accessible.
Location
Seattle Center
Nesholm Lecture Hall at McCaw Hall
305 Harrison Street
Seattle, WA
Directed by Peter Casaer and narrated by Daniel Day-Lewis, this new documentary provides a harrowing look at the challenges of delivering humanitarian aid in armed conflicts. Over 70 minutes, “Access to the Danger Zone” explores the strategies that Doctors Without Borders uses to save lives in the world’s worst war zones, including Afghanistan, Somalia and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Interviews with key experts from Doctors Without Borders, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations are accompanied by dramatic footage shot in the these countries in 2011 and 2012.
Join us following the screeing for an audience Q&A with Seattle-based MSF aid workers, who will share stories from their overseas assignments.
The film screening is free, fully accessible, and open to the public.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
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Directed by Peter Casaer and narrated by Daniel Day-Lewis, this new documentary provides a harrowing look at the challenges of delivering humanitarian aid in armed conflicts. Over 70 minutes, “Access to the Danger Zone” explores the strategies that Doctors Without Borders uses to save lives in the world’s worst war zones, including Afghanistan, Somalia and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Interviews with key experts from Doctors Without Borders, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations are accompanied by dramatic footage shot in the these countries in 2011 and 2012.
Join us following the screeing for an audience Q&A with Portland-based MSF aid workers, who will share stories from their overseas assignments.
The film screening is free, fully accessible, and open to the public.
In many crises, aid agencies are only able to provide assistance through negotiations — with armed groups, health authorities, community leaders — and compromising basic principles is sometimes the price paid for being able to act. These humanitarian negotiations are life-and-death issues for people in need, but they also raise troubling political and ethical dilemmas for the organizations engaged in them.
Join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Mercy Corps for a live panel discussion that will explore these issues from headquarters and on-the-ground perspectives. Moderated by Oregon Public Broadcasting's David Miller, the program will feature experienced MSF and Mercy Corps staff members who will share firsthand experiences from overseas assignments.
Panelists will describe the often complicated process of negotiating as they struggle to define what compromises are acceptable in order to provide lifesaving aid to people in crisis zones.
This event is free, fully accessible, and open to the public.
Location
Mercy Corps Action Center
28 SW First Avenue
Portland, OR MAP
Directed by Peter Casaer and narrated by Daniel Day-Lewis, this new documentary provides a harrowing look at the challenges of delivering humanitarian aid in armed conflicts. Over 70 minutes, “Access to the Danger Zone” explores the strategies that Doctors Without Borders uses to save lives in the world’s worst war zones, including Afghanistan, Somalia and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Interviews with key experts from Doctors Without Borders, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations are accompanied by dramatic footage shot in the these countries in 2011 and 2012.
Join us following the screeing for an audience Q&A with Portland-based MSF aid workers, who will share stories from their overseas assignments.
The film screening is free, fully accessible, and open to the public.
Portland-based MSF aid worker Anna Mapes will share her experience working as a nurse in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya and the large urban slums of Lagos, Nigeria.
This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Location
Oregon Health & Science University
MacKenzie Hall - Room 1162
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd
Portland, OR
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) responds to life-and-death issues for people in need, but the humanitarian space in which it works is also a negotiated space. In most of these situations, compromise is not only inevitable but necessary. In the current context, is it getting more difficult to reach compromises? Who decides what is an acceptable compromise?
Ms. Delaunay will reflect on MSF’s recent medical humanitarian responses in Sri Lanka, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan and Haiti. Based on research done by MSF, she explores the purposes of negotiations, the justification MSF uses for its political choices, as well as how the landscape has changed from the Cold War to the global war on terror.
More information and tickets.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE REGISTER BELOW.
Please Note: Registration is required for this event. Due to building security regulations, attendees must show Photo ID at the building entrance.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
Humanitarian negotiations are life-and-death issues for people in need, but they also raise troubling political and ethical dilemmas for the organizations that are engaged in them. In the recently-published book Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience, published by Columbia University Press, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) takes a critical look at how its teams have negotiated to gain access to people in urgent need of lifesaving medical assistance in the 40 years since MSF was founded, including recent case studies from Somalia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar.
Please join us for a live panel discussion of these issues featuring several experienced MSF aid workers, who will share their first-hand experiences from past assignments. They will describe the often complicated process of negotiating with governments, armed groups, public health officials, international actors, community leaders, and local officials; as well as the struggle to define what compromises are acceptable in order to run programs in crisis zones.
This moderated discussion will feature:
Roshan Kumarasamy, an MSF logistics and coordination expert with extensive experience in such volatile contexts as Sri Lanka, Somalia, and Yemen.
Tanya Arora, MD, a UCLA-based MSF aid worker with past humanitarian assignments in South Sudan and Guatemala.
Melissa Ballantine, RN, an LA-based MSF nurse who previously worked in the U.S. headquarters, and who responded to humanitarian crises in Ivory Coast and Cameroon.
This event is free, fully accessible, and open to the public.
Living in Emergency is a film that takes place in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo and post-conflict Liberia, and follows four Doctors Without Borders aid workers as they struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions. With different levels of experience, these medical humanitarians must find their own ways to face the challenges, the tough choices, and the limits of their idealism.
Join MSF aid workers Tanya Arora, MD, Jacqueline Bowles, MD, Christine Kim, and Melissa Ballantine, RN for an audience Q&A following the screening.
This event is free, fully accessible, and open to the public.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE REGISTER BELOW.
Location
200 Market Building
200 SW Market St
Lobby Level Conference Room
Portland, OR 97201
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
THIS EVENT HAS REACHED CAPACITY. PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR FUTURE NEW YORK INFO SESSIONS OR REGISTER FOR ONE OF OUR UPCOMING WEBINARS.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
What are the ethical responsibilities of photojournalists who choose to cover conflict? Can they be truly neutral or does one have a responsibility to reflect the moral and political imbalances of a given situation? This panel will explore the ethical pressures on photojournalists in conflict and will consider their accountability for the positions they take; the pictures they make and how they make them; where they place their images; and the voice they attach to them.
The discussion will consider the responsibilities and consequences, intended and otherwise, of reporting on conflict. Moderated by Stephen Mayes, the panel will include Marcus Bleasdale, Jason Cone, Philip Gourevitch, Thomas Keenan, and Kira Pollack.
Marcus Bleasdale’s work has been honored by Photo District News (PDN) as among the most iconic photography of the twenty-first century. His coverage of ten years of conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been published in two books, One Hundred Years of Darkness (2002), which was recognized as one of the best photojournalism books of the year by PDN, and Rape of a Nation (2010). In 2007, Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Institute awarded Bleasdale a grant to continue his work on justice and accountability in the DRC. He is widely published in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States in publications such as the Sunday Times Magazine, the Telegraph Magazine, Geo, Stern, the New Yorker, TIME, Newsweek, and National Geographic Magazine.
Philip Gourevitch is a longtime staff writer for the New Yorker, a former editor of the Paris Review, and the author of three books: The Ballad of Abu Ghraib [Standard Operating Procedure] (2008), A Cold Case (2001), and We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (1998), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the George K. Polk Book Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award and, in England, the Guardian First Book Award. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and his reportage, essays, criticism, and short fiction have appeared in numerous publications at home and abroad. In 2010, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow and a Chevallier de l’Ordre des Arts et Des Lettres in France. In 2011, We Wish to Inform You… was included in the Guardian’s list of the hundred greatest non-fiction books from the past two thousand five hundred years.
Jason Cone is the communications director for Doctors Without Borders/Mèdecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) in the United States. In this capacity, he has overseen crisis and advocacy communications campaigns for MSF, ranging from the Haiti earthquake and cholera epidemic to global childhood malnutrition to HIV/AIDS. During his tenure, Harris Interactive, a polling firm, has ranked MSF as the most trusted non-profit in the United States. As executive producer of the Starved for Attention, the MSF-VII Photo, Emmy-nominated documentary series on childhood malnutrition, Cone oversaw the production of eight documentary films, social media strategy, exhibits, and public actions in over a dozen countries aimed at pushing the world’s top donor countries to improve the quality of food aid for malnourished children. He has been a speaker on the importance and ethical dilemmas of utilizing visual communications and social media to advance humanitarian action at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, PhotoPlus, and Social Media Week. Cone was a curator of the photographic exhibits Doctors Without Borders: Photographs from Afghanistan (1984-2004), and The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders.
Thomas Keenan teaches literary theory and human rights at Bard College, where he directs the Human Rights Project. He is the author of Fables of Responsibility (1997) and coeditor, with Wendy Chun, of New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (2005). He recently published, with Eyal Weizman, Mengele’s Skull (2012). The exhibition Antiphotojournalism, which he curated with Carles Guerra, was on display at La Virreina in Barcelona and FOAM in Amsterdam in 2010–11; he also curated Aid and Abet, a project featuring photographers from VII Photo Agency, for the Zoom Festival in Quebec in 2011.
Stephen Mayes is director of VII Photo in New York and has been secretary to the jury of the World Press Photo competition since 2004. A leader in the field for twenty-five years, he has worked in the areas of art, commercial, and fashion photography and photojournalism. He has been manager of Network Photographers and has served as Chair of World Press Photo competition. He was senior vice president at Getty Images, where he led the Creative Department in developing commercial content strategies, and held the same title at eyestorm.com, where he represented high-end artists in the consumer marketplace. Mayes also worked with Art + Commerce as director of its Image Archive, where he represented top fashion and art photographers for commercial licensing. He writes and broadcasts regularly on the ethics and realities of photographic practice.
Kira Pollack is the director of photography at TIME magazine, where she oversees the photographic vision of TIME, TIME.com, and all digital media. In October 2011, she was named the photo editor of the year at the Lucie Awards. Since Pollack joined TIME in October 2009, the brand’s photography has been recognized with many prestigious awards, including the World Press Photo of the Year and the Visa D’Or award at Visa Pour l’Image. In March 2011, she established TIME’s photography site LightBox, which is dedicated to the culture of images and provides a forum for conversation on photography. Pollack also spearheaded TIME’s Beyond 9/11 project, which included forty portraits coupled with oral histories, a special commemorative issue, a microsite, a documentary in association with HBO, and a gallery exhibition. Previously, Pollack was the deputy photo editor for the New York Times Magazine. During her eleven-year tenure, she produced the annual Oscars portfolio from 2004–2009 and Obama’s People in 2009 under Kathy Ryan. She was also the photo editor of Play, the Times’ sports magazine. Prior to the New York Times Magazine, Pollack was an associate photo editor at the New Yorker from 2004–2008.
This event is free, fully accessible, and open to the public.
Location
Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street
New York, NY
It is only in exceptional circumstances that we ask you to fund our response to a specific crisis. Because the need is so great, your donation today will go directly to meet urgent medical needs in South Sudan.
A live, moderated panel discussion on one of the most under-reported humanitarian emergencies in the world today, featuring recently returned Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency field staff and a slide show by an award-winning photojournalist.
Over the past eight months, more than 170,000 refugees have fled fighting and aerial bombardments in Sudan’s South Kordofan and Blue Nile States for camps across the border in South Sudan. Yet this escalating emergency has received scant media attention and garnered little in the way of donor funding compared to the scale of the crisis.
MSF has deployed thousands of staff to run hospitals and malnutrition feeding centers, build wells for drinking water, and provide sanitation services in response to the emergency in South Sudan. Facing catastrophic death rates, escalating malnutrition, outbreaks of malaria, and extremely complex logistical hurdles, MSF teams are further scaling up an already massive aid effort in an incredibly challenging environment.
The panelists will provide first-hand accounts of the on-the-ground reality of mobilizing the aid effort; from dealing with washed out roads and airstrips, to coping with outbreaks of severe malnutrition, malaria, and diarrheal disease. They’ll share stories from refugees fleeing the violence in Sudan.
Screening:
A reportage from photojournalist John Stanmeyer of VII Photo and National Geographic Magazine.
Panelists:
Sophie Delaunay - Executive Director, MSF-USA
Matthew Horning, MD - MSF South Sudan Emergency Physician
Kate Mort - MSF South Sudan Emergency Human Resources Coordinator and MSF-USA Field Human Resources Officer
Phil Zabriskie - MSF South Sudan Emergency Communications Officer and MSF-USA Managing Editor
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
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3:00 PM Hawaii time
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a live teleconference and webinar to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. Human Resources Officers will discuss requirements, and participants will be able to ask questions about the recruitment process and life in the field.
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Location
Via teleconference and webinar.
Participants will need a phone line to listen to the presentation and an internet connection to watch the optional (but recommended) online slideshow presentation.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
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1:00 PM Eastern time
12:00 PM Central time
11:00 AM Mountain time
10:00 AM Pacific time
9:00 AM Alaska time
8:00 AM Hawaii time
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a live teleconference and webinar to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. Human Resources Officers will discuss requirements, and participants will be able to ask questions about the recruitment process and life in the field.
SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE REGISTER BELOW.
Location
Via teleconference and webinar.
Participants will need a phone line to listen to the presentation and an internet connection to watch the optional (but recommended) online slideshow presentation.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
Over 40 years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has developed a reputation as an emergency medical humanitarian organization willing to go almost anywhere to deliver care to people in need. And yet when questioned about MSF, people in countries where the group works had very different perceptions. One aid recipient thought MSF was an organization based in Saudi Arabia and financed by Muslim charities. Another thought it was a China-based corporation. And yet another believed MSF requires everyone who enters their medical facilities to be armed (quite the opposite, in fact).
We invite you to join us for a panel discussion to mark the English-language release of the book. Panelists will include contributors to the book as well as MSF aid workers, who will share stories from their field assignments reflecting issues of perception and exploring the many facets of humanitarian action today.
Moderator:
Richard Gowan, Associate Director for Conflict and Strategic Mediation at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC)
Panelists:
Caroline Abu-Sada, Coordinator of MSF’s research unit for humanitarian action in Geneva and editor of In the Eyes of Others: How People in Crises Perceive Humanitarian Aid
Abby Stoddard, Co-Director of Humanitarian Outcomes and contributing writer to In the Eyes of Others: How People in Crises Perceive Humanitarian Aid
Dr. Marc Levin, MSF aid worker - assignments in Central African Republic, Niger, and Chad
Location
New York University
Auditorium Room C95
238 Thompson Street
New York, NY 10012 MAP
Over 40 years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has developed a reputation as an emergency medical humanitarian organization willing to go almost anywhere to deliver care to people in need. And yet when questioned about MSF, people in countries where the group works had very different perceptions. One aid recipient thought MSF was an organization based in Saudi Arabia and financed by Muslim charities. Another thought it was a China-based corporation. And yet another believed MSF requires everyone who enters their medical facilities to be armed (quite the opposite, in fact).
We invite you to join us for an online panel discussion to mark the English-language release of the book. Panelists will include contributors to the book as well as MSF aid workers, who will share stories from their field assignments reflecting issues of perception and exploring the many facets of humanitarian action today.
Moderator:
Phil Zabriskie, Managing Editor at MSF-USA
Panelists:
Caroline Abu-Sada, Coordinator of MSF’s research unit for humanitarian action in Geneva and editor of In the Eyes of Others: How People in Crises Perceive Humanitarian Aid
Abby Stoddard, Co-Director of Humanitarian Outcomes and contributing writer to In the Eyes of Others: How People in Crises Perceive Humanitarian Aid
Dr. Darin Portnoy, Vice President, Médecins Sans Frontières International, former President of MSF-USA, and MSF aid worker
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All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
8:00 PM Eastern time
7:00 PM Central time
6:00 PM Mountain time
5:00 PM Pacific time
4:00 PM Alaska time
3:00 PM Hawaii time
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a live teleconference and webinar to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. Human Resources Officers will discuss requirements, and participants will be able to ask questions about the recruitment process and life in the field.
SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE REGISTER BELOW.
Location
Via teleconference and webinar.
Participants will need a phone line to listen to the presentation and an internet connection to watch the optional (but recommended) online slideshow presentation.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
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All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
THIS EVENT HAS REACHED CAPACITY. PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR FUTURE NEW YORK INFO SESSIONS OR REGISTER FOR ONE OF OUR UPCOMING WEBINARS.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE REGISTER BELOW.
Please Note: Registration is required for this event. Due to building security regulations, attendees must show Photo ID at the building entrance.
Light refreshments will be served prior to the panel discussion, which will begin at 6:30 PM.
Humanitarian negotiations are life-and-death issues for people in need, but they also raise troubling political and ethical dilemmas for the organizations that are engaged in them.
In the book Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience, recently published by Columbia University Press, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) takes a critical look at how its teams have negotiated to gain access to people in urgent need of lifesaving medical assistance in the 40 years since MSF was founded, including recent case studies from Somalia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar.
Please join MSF and Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs for a moderated panel discussion of these issues with: John Fiddler, RN, an experienced MSF aid worker; Sophie Delaunay, the Executive Director of MSF-USA; and the iconoclastic author David Rieff (A Bed for the Night). They will describe the often complicated process of negotiating with governments, armed groups, public health officials, international actors, community leaders, and local officials; as well as the struggle to define what compromises are acceptable in order to run programs in crisis zones.
Location
Columbia University
Morningside Campus
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027 MAP
The past decade has seen a surge in initiatives to promote medical innovations, to increase research and development of health products, and to improve medical care for neglected patients around the world. There have been some relatively effective programs to address medical catastrophes like AIDS, malaria, and malnutrition as well as less successful but ongoing efforts at improving care for those with tuberculosis, deadly neglected tropical diseases, and pediatric HIV. Research and development initiatives and public-private partnerships among developed and developing country institutions have also begun to fill previously-abandoned pipelines for health products, while new funding opportunities have arisen. At the same time, new health challenges in non-communicable diseases like heart disease and diabetes are increasingly recognized as not being met.
We invite you to join leaders from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), New York University, and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for a conversation about current global health challenges. How has medical innovation been introduced in humanitarian settings? What initiatives have been successful to improve health care for neglected patients? What innovations are needed moving forward?
Afternoon Session (4:00-6:00 pm)
Key Note Address
Dr. Valentin Fuster, Director of the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Innovations in Heart Disease Research
Panel Presentations
Judit Rius, US Manager of MSF’s Access Campaign. Innovation and access to health products for neglected patients: challenges and obstacles
Dr. Mark Foran, Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center. The impact of emerging technologies on humanitarian action.
Duncan Mclean, Operational Manager for MSF. Implementing medical humanitarian programs: A view from the field. (TBC)
Evening Panel Discussion (6:00-8:00 pm)
Moderator:
Dr. Philip Landrigan, Dean for Global Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Panelists:
Rachel Cohen, Regional Executive Director, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) North America
Dr. Nils Hennig, Assistant Professor Preventative Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Dr. Matt Spitzer, President, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-USA
This event is free and open to the public.
Location
Stern Auditorium
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
1468 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10029
(Subway: 6 train to 96th St.) MAP
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
The drug company Novartis has been attacking India's patent law for six years, and, if it wins, it could change the way drugs are patented in India, restricting the production of more affordable generic versions of drugs. Eighty percent of the medicines Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) uses to treat 170,000 people living with HIV in its projects today are sourced from Indian generic drug companies. The case is before India's Supreme Court and the hearings start February 28.
Now it is time for us to join and support actions here in New York. MSF will be joining activists from Health GAP on Wednesday to protest Novartis's case ahead of the company's shareholder meeting and we ask you to join us.
An evening of Irish and Scottish music, song, and dance featuring Nic Gareiss, Blackthorn, Finvarra’s Wren, Crossroads ceili, with special guest: Ashely MacIsaac and many many more...
It will be a family friendly atmosphere with cash bar and food available for purchase.
All performers have generously donated their talents to this charitable event.
Please make checks payable to Doctors without Borders
Admission by donation.
For more information please phone: Mick Gavin 313 537-3489 or Kathleen O’Neill 313 96-IRISH
Location
Gaelic League/Irish American Club
2068 Michigan Avenue
Detroit, MI
PLEASE NOTE:
THIS EVENT HAS REACHED CAPACITY. REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
Medical humanitarian organizations and human rights groups often operate in the same crisis zones but have different aims and approaches to negotiating access.
Join panelists from:
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University (SIPA)
for a discussion of the dilemmas faced by both humanitarian and human rights organizations trying to work in crisis zones. How different are the two approaches? Are they compatible on the ground? How are decisions made about establishing projects? And what compromises are acceptable when negotiating access to populations in immediate danger?
MSF currently operates emergency medical programs in nearly 70 countries, including Afghanistan, Somalia, Myanmar, and other areas in crisis.
This event is free, fully accessible, and open to the public.
This is an MSF event. Please do not contact The New School for information.
8:00 PM Eastern time
7:00 PM Central time
6:00 PM Mountain time
5:00 PM Pacific time
4:00 PM Alaska time
3:00 PM Hawaii time
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a live teleconference and webinar to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. Human Resources Officers will discuss requirements, and participants will be able to ask questions about the recruitment process and life in the field.
SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE REGISTER BELOW.
Location
Via teleconference and webinar.
Participants will need a phone line to listen to the presentation and an internet connection to watch the optional (but recommended) online slideshow presentation.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
Medical humanitarian organizations and human rights groups often operate in the same crisis zones but have different aims and approaches to negotiating access.
Join panelists from:
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Physicians for Human Rights
Tufts University's Feinstein International Center
and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
for a discussion of the dilemmas faced by both humanitarian and human rights organizations trying to work in crisis zones. How different are the two approaches? Are they compatible on the ground? How are decisions made about establishing projects? And what compromises are acceptable when negotiating access to populations in immediate danger?
MSF currently operates emergency medical programs in nearly 70 countries, including Afghanistan, Somalia, Myanmar, and other areas in crisis.
This event is free, fully accessible, and open to the public.
Please join us at 6:00pm for a reception in the Rabb Lecture Hall lobby.
The event will begin promptly at 7:00pm.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE REGISTER BELOW.
Location
200 Market Building
Lobby Level Conference Room
200 SW Market St
Portland, OR 97201
Humanitarian negotiations are life-and-death issues for people in need, but they also raise troubling political and ethical dilemmas for the organizations that are engaged in them. In the forthcoming book Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience, published by Columbia University Press, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) takes a critical look at how its teams have negotiated to gain access to people in urgent need of lifesaving medical assistance in the 40 years since MSF was founded, including recent case studies from Somalia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar.
Please join us for a live online discussion of these issues featuring several experienced MSF aid workers, who will share their first-hand experiences from past assignments. They will describe the often complicated process of negotiating with governments, armed groups, public health officials, international actors, community leaders, and local officials; as well as the struggle to define what compromises are acceptable in order to run programs in crisis zones.
This moderated discussion will feature:
Michelle Mays, MSF Nurse who has completed 4 field assignments in India, Haiti, and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Suerie Moon, PhD, Instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health, Associate Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program at the Center for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and member of the Board of Directors of MSF-USA
Michael Neuman, Research Director at the MSF Center for Reflection on Humanitarian Knowledge and Action (CRASH) and editor of the recently published volume Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience
Jennifer Tierney, Director of Development for MSF-USA
During the event, join the discussion on Twitter by following @MSF_USA and tweeting with the hashtag #AnyPrice.
In many crisis situations, aid agencies are only able to provide assistance through negotiations with a variety of actors—armed groups, health authorities, community leaders—each with its own vested interests. Sometimes compromising basic principles is the price paid for being able to act. Humanitarian negotiations are life-and-death issues for people in need, but they also raise troubling political and ethical dilemmas for the organizations that are engaged in them.
On January 26, the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will host a discussion on the compromises and negotiations the humanitarian aid community must contend with during crisis situations.
Michael Neuman, research director with the Centre de Réflexion sur l’Action et les Savoirs Humanitaries at MSF, will discuss the organization’s new book, Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience.
He will be joined by panelists William Garvelink, senior adviser, U.S. Leadership in Development at the Center for Strategic International Studies; Markus Geisser, deputy head of regional delegation for the International Committee for the Red Cross; and Rabih Torbay, vice president for international operations at International Medical Corps.
Senior Fellow Elizabeth Ferris, co-director of the Project on Internal Displacement, will provide introductory remarks and moderate the discussion.
After the program, panelists will take audience questions.
This event is free, fully accessible, and open to the public.
Registration through the Brookings Institution is required.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
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