John Pringle joined McGill University as a Postdoctoral Fellow in humanitarian health ethics after completing his PhD in public health and bioethics at the University of Toronto. John is a nurse and epidemiologist, and his work focuses on the ethics of humanitarianism within globalization and global health. In addition to his work in Canada, he has worked with
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Eritrea, northern Nigeria, and most recently in Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak.
John Pringle
Shannon Jensen
Opinion
MSF and economy-generated environmental disasters
11/07/2012John Pringle suggests that MSF, when tackling economy-generated environmental disasters, should not hesitate to question the ‘forces that deny our patients the societal determinants of health'.