Paul Bouvier is working with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as the coordinator of the HELP course - Health Emergencies in Large Populations - and chair of the group on ethics in the practice of humanitarian action.…
Category: Member Profiles
In Focus: Joan Marston
In Focus: Member Profile ___________________________________________ Joan Marston is based in South Africa and comes from a background in Nursing and Social Science. She is the Global Ambassador of the International Children's Palliative Care Network (ICPCN) having served as its Chief Executive. She was one…
In Focus: Olive Wahoush
HHE Member Profile Dr. Olive Wahoush has been an advocate and researcher of refugee health care since 1987. She came to this topic first through teaching undergraduate nurses maternal newborn health in a refugee camp in Jordan in the 1987…
In Focus: Gautham Krishnaraj
In Focus: Gautham Krishnaraj Gautham Krishnaraj is a MSc Candidate (Global Health), 2016 RBC Students Leading Change Scholar, Canadian Red Cross Youth Advisor and the newest trainee of the Humanitarian Health Care Ethics Research Group at McMaster University. During his undergraduate…
Justice in the Humanitarian Context – Maxwell Smith
Maxwell J. Smith, PhD, MSc Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University During the 2009-2010 H1N1 influenza pandemic I began working as a research coordinator with the ‘Canadian Program of Research on Ethics in a Pandemic’…
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Policy & Well Being – Leigh-Anne Gillespie
Leigh-Anne Gillespie, PhD candidate Health Policy Program, Political Studies Stream gilleslb@mcmaster.ca The lasting impression of participating in a medical mission to Olongapo City, Philippines in 2008 inspired me to pursue a PhD in Health Policy. Policy is far-reaching: the ability…
Geneva & Back Again – Julia Pemberton’s Reflections on Interning at the WHO
Julia Pemberton, PhD candidate Health Research Methodology Program, Field of Interest: Global Health pemberj@mcmaster.ca This past summer I had the incredible opportunity to join the World Health Organization (WHO) as a Research Intern for three months. At WHO I joined…
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On “Doing Ethics” – Dr. Ali Okhowat
I began my PhD, in part, for the same reason that I felt compelled to move to Montreal: to learn French. I'd scrounged up the courage to walk over to the then unpronounceable Pavillon Marguerite-d'Youville de l'Université de Montréal shortly…
In Focus: Brett Sutton
Brett Sutton is Public Health Registrar at Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Australia. His expertise is in synthesising clinical work with international and local public health experience.
In Focus: Christine Wang
Christine is completing her final year in the Bachelor of Health Sciences program at McMaster University. She spent the last six summers working with healthcare teams near Inner Mongolia, enabling her to gather local perceptions of poverty, power and justice within humanitarian contexts.
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