
James Smith
@james_msf
Prev. Humanitarian Affairs Advisor @MSF, @MSF_UREPH & @MSF_access. Worked in South Sudan & Sierra Leone. All started with @FoMSFUK_Ireland. As per, views mine.
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http://www.msf.org 02-11-2016 15:58:00
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Great to see the effort taken to ensure the HCBerlin continues online this year, and grateful for the opportunity to speak later this week. Opening plenary with Tammam Aloudat تمّام العودات Lina Srivastava starting soon, and still plenty of time to register: hopin.to/events/humanit… #HCBerlin

"The paternalism and lack of focus on community was doing more damage than good" Lina Srivastava reflects on her early-career NGO experience. Much of this *still* rings true. More in her piece, Decolonising Aid Will Take More Than Listening medium.com/@lksriv/decolo… #HCBerlin

"Liberation, solidarity ... those words aren't used in humanitarian discourse" - Tammam Aloudat تمّام العودات. While we so often hear we're standing "in solidarity with" one community or another, how much is that true to the political meaning of solidarity? cc Sridhar Venkatapuram MSc MPhil PhD MFPH(Hon) FRSA #HCBerlin

"Triage ist ein Prozess der Verhandlung mit Kolleg*innen, Familienmitgliedern, der Patient*in selbst, aber auch ein Prozess des Widerstandes - als Arzt/Ärztin kann es sehr schwierig sein, nicht so viel wie möglich für eine einzelne Person zu tun." James Smith beim #HCBerlin


On of the takeaways of the pandemic for James Smith: "We really need to use this opportunity to reorientate our domestic policy making towards essential services like healthcare and education." #hcberlin


Absolute pleasure to speak with Fredrick Oluga, Rahmawati (Ama) Husein, Dr. Mercy Korir on triage and the complexities of difficult decision making in the face of scarce resources. So much more to be said on this important topic! youtube.com/watch?v=aYTuZQ… #HCBerlin

Glad to be able to join! cc @CLee_EL. Hugo Slim Matthew Hunt Lisa Schwartz - may be of interest to your students


"96% of the Pfizer Inc. vaccines have been booked out by rich countries, leaving the poorest 70 countries in the world with only 1 out of 10 of their people vaccinated next year," says Winnie Byanyima in this interview with BBC News (UK). We need a #PeoplesVaccine, not a profit vaccine.
