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As part of its contribution to MSF's critical self-reflexion, the CRASH regularly invites outside speakers, researchers and key civil society figures to come present their perspectives and their work on general issues that intersect with the concerns of humanitarian action. Intended primarily for an internal audience - but open to others closely connected to the association - each conference is followed by an open discussion.

The challenges and dead ends of delivering aid in governement-held areas in Syria

2023-12-06 18:30:00 2023-12-06 20:30:00 Europe/Paris The challenges and dead ends of delivering aid in governement-held areas in Syria Crash and iReMMO are pleased to invite you on Wednesday 6 December at 6.30pm to a round table discussion on the challenges, constraints, and limits of humanitarian aid in Syrian government zones. MSF CRASH

Crash and iReMMO are pleased to invite you on Wednesday 6 December at 6.30pm to a round table discussion on the challenges, constraints, and limits of humanitarian aid in Syrian government zones.

Sharon Abramowitz and Michaël Neuman during MSF Crash conference about humanitarian anthropology MSF Conference

Humanitarian anthropology : conference with Sharon Abramowitz

10/23/2017 - 04:00 PM 06:00 PM Sharon Abramowitz

Sharon Abramowitz is an anthropologist and a visiting researcher at the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University, co-editor of recently published Medical humanitarianism. Ethnographies of practice. She has devoted much of her work to responding to epidemics - most recently in Ebola, and in West Africa, Liberia in particular.

During the conference organized by MSF-Crash on 23 October 2017, she discussed the contribution of medical anthropology to humanitarian action as well as her latest book and most recent projects.

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conférence-débat sur les effets de la polio Conference

The polio eradication campaign put to test

02/04/2014 - 12:30 PM 06:30 PM Claire Magone

The polio eradication campaign has indeniably and remarkably succeeded in tumbling down the number of polio cases worldwide. But difficulties currently faced by the Programme -pockets of social resistance in several countries, reinfection of some countries, outbreak of epidemics associated with strains of vaccine-derived polio viruses- indeed challenge one of the main assumptions underlying the objective of the eradication itself : the full compliance of an entire population to a public health program.

 

 

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Débat avec Sandrine Revet Conference

Living a Natural Disaster

11/03/2010 - 06:00 PM 08:00 PM Sandrine Revet

Population errant dans les décombres en Haïti, bras tendus implorant des secours au milieu des crues au Pakistan : le traitement médiatique des catastrophes met invariablement en scène des victimes impuissantes, dépassées par le désastre, attendant d'être assistées...

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Deux personnes discutent dans le camp de personnes déplacées de Kalenge, en république démocratique du Congo Lena Mucha Conference

From their point of view

03/10/2009 - 06:00 PM 08:30 PM Caroline Abu-sada

The reasons why we are accepted, tolerated or sometimes rejected in the contexts where we work are often obscure. Caroline Abu-Sada and her team of sociology student shed some light on these issues.

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