Medicine and public health

Consultation médicale Olga Victorie Op-ed

Flu: From Uncertainty to Illusion...

07/29/2009 Jean-Hervé Bradol

Based on MSF's experience in responding to epidemics, Jean-Hervé Bradol describes the risks of spending precious time and energy on trying to delay the spread of the epidemic rather than on the case management of large numbers of sick people.

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Outpatient Department in the Bidibidi MSF Health Center - paediatric consultation, Uganda Frederic Noy Book

Humanitarian Medicine

02/01/2009 Rony Brauman

Humanitarian medicine is intented for marginalized people, hit by a crisis or deprived of access to medical care. This book helps us understand how the specificity of humanitarian medicine stems from real-life situations, more than from the medical act in itself.

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Couverture du livre Niger 2005, une catastrophe si naturelle MSF-Crash Book

Niger: A Not-So Natural Disaster

10/01/2007 Xavier Crombé Jean-Hervé Jézéquel

Twenty years after the charity concerts for the Sahel Nigerien politicians, institutional donors, aid agencies and humanitarian organisations clashed on the nature and substance of the crisis affecting Niger in 2005. Identifying the causes of, and adequate responses to, the situation also gave rise to profound disagreements. Having set up their most ambitious emergency nutrition programme to date, Médecins Sans Frontières found itself at the forefront of these controversies.

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Couverture du livre Populations en danger 1995 MSF-Crash Book

Populations in danger 1995

11/01/1995 François Jean

« Never again »: in the wake of the second World War, the terror caused by the Holocaust led the community of states to condemn genocide as a crime and to create a new international organization, the United Nations. And yet, half a century later, the international community did nothing to prevent the first undeniable genocide since that of the Jews: it let the massacre of the Rwandan Tutsis and merely sent humanitarian aid, even though it was nearly over.  

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Un travailleur humanitaire MSF dans une salle Colin Delfosse Book

Life, Death and Aid

11/01/1993 François Jean

With the end of the Cold War came the hope of a "New World Order". yet the tragedies of war and famine continue to dominate our headlines. Humanitarian law is still violated every day. Emergency aid from the United Nations and donor governments remains inadequate and military interventions often fail to restore durable peace.

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Medicine Conference

Doing Drugs – Video briefing on access to medicines

02/03/2022 - 08:00 AM 02/04/2022 - 12:00 PM Michaël Neuman

On 3rd and 4th February 2022, the CRASH organised a workshop aimed at the leaders, operational managers and members of MSF France, to shed light on the current debates on access to medicines, and to determine together which issues are the most relevant to resolve. In preparation for this workshop, the CRASH asked experts external to MSF to explain their vision of today’s pharmaceutical industry system, with subjects that ranged from pre-development to distribution, and included patents and quality-related issues.

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conv yves clot Conference

Another approach to well-being at work

12/09/2021 - 05:30 PM 07:30 PM Yves Clot Jean-Yves Bonnefond

The members of the Crash are very happy to welcome you all to this new conference-debate with occupational psychologists Yves Clot and Jean-Yves Bonnefond, two of the authors of “Le prix du travail bien fait – La coopération conflictuelle dans les organisations” (Paris, La Découverte, 2021 ; co-written with Antoine Bonnemain and Mylène Zittoun).

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conf pierre chirac Conference

Clinical trials, between science and financial and academic interests

10/08/2020 - 04:00 PM 06:00 PM Pierre Chirac

Pierre Chirac, pharmacist and editor of the journal Prescrire, will present his analysis of the pharmaceutical industry's influence strategies and the special interests of university hospital researchers, their consequences on the reliability of drug information and the means now required to rectify a harmful situation.

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