Jacob Burns started working for MSF in 2018. He has worked in the field and at headquarters as a communications officer, did a year at the Crash from 2022 to 2023, and was most recently a project coordinator in Haiti and Gaza. Before working for MSF, he was a freelance journalist in the Middle East and worked on human rights, notably with Amnesty International in Palestine.
Jacob Burns
Analysis
In this paper, Jacob Burns analyzes MSF's activities in the provision of social support. In the introduction, he suggests a rough outline of different ‘social’ problems that MSF has turned to between the 1980s and the 2010s. The second part of the paper is a report of a field visit conducted in October – November 2023 to Goma, DRC.