The Humanitarian Lens
The Humanitarian Lens
Podcast Description
The Humanitarian Lens is a podcast produced by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) USA. Hosted by MSF USA CEO, Avril Benoît, each episode explores humanitarian crises through the first-hand experience of our staff caring for people affected by conflict, epidemics, natural and human-made disasters, and other emergencies in more than 70 countries around the world.
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The podcast focuses on urgent humanitarian crises, featuring topics such as medical responses in war-torn regions, epidemic outbreaks, and the challenges faced by aid workers with episodes like those featuring doctors’ experiences in Gaza and Sudan, exploring themes of trauma, patient care, and the systemic obstacles to medical support.
The Humanitarian Lens is a podcast produced by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) USA. Each episode explores humanitarian crises through the first-hand experience of our staff caring for people affected by conflict, epidemics, natural and human-made disasters, and other emergencies in more than 70 countries around the world.
After a flood destroyed a newly stocked pharmacy in South Sudan, Urshula Edwards got a call: “Could you get on a plane?”
Edwards is a supply chain coordinator who has worked in 19 countries with Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). She talks with host Chigo Ahunanya about how logistics and supply chain are essential to humanitarian response.
Whether it’s salvaging medication by canoe from a flooded pharmacy, responding to the needs of 70,000 refugees arriving in Burundi during a fuel crisis, or building an inflatable hospital, teams of logisticians and supply chain humanitarian workers power MSF’s work around the globe.
Learn more about our work and about professional opportunities with MSF at doctorswithoutborders.org.
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