"Medical Innovation in Humanitarian Situations: The Work of Doctors Without Borders"

Special Lecture Event
Sponsored by the Department of Bioethics, NIH Clinical Center

Speaker: Dr. Jean-Hervé Bradol
April 16, 2010
11 am to 12 noon
Lipsett Amphitheater
Clinical Center, Building 10
National Institutes of Health

Please join Dr. Jean-Hervé Bradol for a discussion on his recently edited volume Medical Innovation in Humanitarian Situations: The Work of Doctors Without Borders. In the book, several authors examine the debates and controversies surrounding the obstacles to their medical work in precarious situations in the field—from developing logistical capabilities to improving the treatment of cholera, sleeping sickness, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and nutrition.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization that provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters.

Today, MSF provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. MSF provides independent, impartial assistance to those most in need. MSF reserves the right to speak out to bring attention to neglected crises, to challenge inadequacies or abuse of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments and protocols. In 1999, MSF received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Reasonable Accommodations: Sign language interpreters will be provided. Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this event should contact the Clinical Center Office of Communications, Patient Recruitment and Public Liaison at 301-496-2563. TTY users, please call through the Federal Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339.

Dr. Jean-Hervé Bradol   
Director of Research at the
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontieres
Center for Reflection on Humanitarian Action & Knowledge
(Centre de Réflexion sur l’Action et les Savoirs Humanitaires—CRASH)

Dr. Bradol is former president of MSF in France and former board member of MSF-USA. Beginning in 1989, he was an MSF field physician in contexts ranging from refugee camps in Thailand, where he coordinated the introduction of a new treatment for multi-drug resistant malaria, to the Rwandan genocide. Most recently, he spent several months in Haiti as a field physician for MSF during the emergency response to the earthquake.

Currently he is Director of Research at the MSF Center for Reflection on Humanitarian Action & Knowledge (Centre de Réflexion sur l'Action et les Savoirs Humanitaires - CRASH).

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