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Webinar: We Are Stronger Together
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About the webinar
One-third of the patients who receive medical aid from MSF are people caught in armed conflict. In the first two years of Sudan’s civil war, 1.7 million people sought medical consultations at MSF-supported hospitals, health facilities and mobile clinics. In Lebanon and across the wider Middle East region, a recent escalation in violence has threatened the safety and health of millions of people as airstrikes continue.
Providing healthcare in conflict situations is about more than just emergency medicine. It’s about responding to people’s needs in constantly changing circumstances and ensuring we can provide healthcare safely in the most precarious conditions.
This webinar is designed for you to understand what providing care in conflict truly involves, from frontline emergency medicine to the essential, behind-the-scenes work that keeps operations running. It's an opportunity to reflect on MSF's principles in action, and the bond of humanity that connects patients, staff and supporters like you.
About the panel
Shelley Cook, medical team leader
Following 12 years in the community mental health sector, Shelley re-trained as a Registered Nurse and was awarded National Graduate Nurse of the Year. She spent some years working with adults, then children, remote nursing in the Northern Territory, and completed five back-to-back assignments with MSF. She was recently featured in The Age newspaper for her work as a medical team leader in Sudan from which she has just recentlyreturned to her Melbourne home. Her other MSF assignments were to Yemen, Palestine, South Sudan and Nigeria.
Dr Khairil Musa, intensive care and trauma specialist
Dr Khairil Musa is an ICU and trauma specialist with MSF and was part of the founding team involved in setting up COVID-19 ICUs in Yemen and Iraq during the pandemic. Khairil’s commitment to critical care in conflict zones continued with multiple deployments to Afghanistan providing complex trauma care and most recently the set-up of a major burn unit in Kunduz, Afghanistan. In addition to working overseas with MSF, Khairil is developing a trauma and critical care training curriculum for humanitarian contexts with MSF Belgium. Khairil concurrently works as an ICU consultant in Alice Springs Hospital and several ICUs around Sydney.
Arunn Jegan, humanitarian affairs lead (host)
Arunn is an experienced head of mission and emergency coordinator and has worked in Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Bangladesh. Prior to Joining MSF, Arunn worked in Afghanistan, Sri -Lanka, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkiye in senior management positions for other international NGOs over a 15-year career. While Arunn specialises in humanitarian crisis coordination during public health emergencies, he has been exploring relational approaches to advocacy using co-design, creative practice, and community engagement through the Creative Advocacy Partnership.