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Climate Change and Humanitarian Aid: Perspectives from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
					
 Nov 2, 2021 
 12:00PM to 1:00PM

									

				

					Event Categories   Lecture / Panel,   November 02 (Tuesday),   UN SDG 03 - Good Health and Well-being,   UN SDG 05 - Gender Equality,   UN SDG 13 - Climate Action,   UN SDG 16 - Peace and Justice Strong Institutions, and   UN SDG 17 - Partnerships to achieve the Goal
				

			


	

	

		

			

				

					

						

														

															

						

						

	

		
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	Date(s) - 02/11/2021
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm





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Join us for a dynamic and meaningful panel discussion with Carol Devine, Head of Climate Smart at MSF and Tricia Khan, Patients and Populations as Partners Implementer at MSF. They will be speaking about sustainability within the humanitarian field, mitigating the effects of climate change in low-resource and conflict settings, and community-based health approaches. The discussion, hosted by the Global Health Office, will be moderated by Raya Semeniuk, MSc Global Health graduate.


To register for this event: https://mcmaster.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsd-CsrTwvG9cwxKUGYDgZbyJ-BG_E5bbr


MSF is the world’s leading independent international humanitarian organization, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, disasters and exclusion from healthcare in more than 70 countries worldwide. For 50 years, MSF has been working to save lives, alleviate suffering and restore dignity to people caught in life-threatening circumstances. MSF’s actions are guided by medical ethics and the following five principles: neutrality; impartiality; independence; bearing witness and transparency and accountability.


Carol Devine is the Project Team Lead for Climate Smart Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and was previously the Humanitarian Affairs Advisor with MSF Canada for 6 years. Carol advises, researches, writes, and speaks principally on the impact of climate change on health, as well as on migration, healthcare under fire, and humanitarian principles for MSF. Carol has worked for MSF in Rwanda, South Sudan, the Congo, East Timor, Kenya and Peru. In 2018, Carol co-contributed to the Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change and was a 2016 Fellow with Ecologic Institute’s Arctic Summer College. She has advocated for access to medicines and for respect for humanitarian principles and law before the Canadian Parliament and the World Trade Organization and has been a speaker at TEDxMontreal Women, the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness, and at the American Geophysical Union Conference in 2018 on plastic pollution, climate change, and health.


Tricia Khan has worked for MSF for over 6 years in a variety of roles and has over fifteen years of experience in humanitarian program management and community engagement roles internationally. She is currently working on an initiative called ‘Patients and Populations as Partners’, based out of Switzerland. This initiative focuses on empowering communities and the patients MSF works with to participate in every step of project planning and implementation, from emergency/start-up to closure/handover. Tricia has also worked in Bangladesh, South Sudan, and most recently, the Tigray region in response to the crisis. Tricia is experienced and skilled in engaging diverse audiences for operational and programming needs – and is an incredibly strong fundraiser, who builds capacity through her gift of storytelling, conscientious style of leadership, and commitment to EDI principals and MSF values. When she is not working in the field, Tricia is part of MSF’s Canada dynamic philanthropy team as an Engagement Officer.