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Because Tomorrow Needs Her Photo Exhibit – NYC
WHEN
Thursday, May 5 to Tuesday, May 31
9:00 AM – 9:00 PM
WHERE
Forchheimer Main Street Cafe
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1300 Morris Park Ave
Bronx, NY 10461
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Free and open to the public
Join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for a special photo exhibit and panel discussion related to Because Tomorrow Needs Her, a multimedia project about the efforts undertaken by MSF to improve the access to and quality of women’s health care worldwide.
We know how to save their lives, yet more than 800 women die every day from pregnancy-related causes. We know how to ease their suffering, yet many victims of sexual violence go without any medical or psychological care.
Millions of babies die in the first weeks of life from preventable causes. And while we know how to keep HIV-positive mothers from passing the virus to their babies, every day 700 children come into the world with HIV.
An exhibition of photographs by international, award-winning photojournalists covering women’s health in developing countries will be on display from May 5 to May 31 on the first floor of the Forchheimer Medical Science Building. For more information about the free panel discussion on May 18, featuring MSF and Einstein field workers, click here.
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Because Tomorrow Needs Her Panel Discussion – NYC
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
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WHEN
6:00 PM Reception – Forchheimer Main Street Cafe
7:00 PM Panel Discussion – Robbins Auditorium
WHERE
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1300 Morris Park Ave
Bronx, NY 10461
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Join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for a special photo exhibit and panel discussion related to Because Tomorrow Needs Her, a multimedia project about the efforts undertaken by MSF to improve the access to and quality of women’s health care worldwide.
Following the reception, Denise Grady of the New York Times will lead a discussion between MSF field workers and the director of Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s Global Women’s Health Program, who will all share stories of women they’ve been able to help, those they haven’t, and what still needs to be done.
This event will correspond with an exhibition of photographs by international, award-winning photojournalists covering women’s health in developing countries. The exhibit will be on display from May 5 to May 31, from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM, on the first floor of the Forchheimer Medical Science Building. More info
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Panelists:
Veronica Ades, MD, MPH, is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist. During her fellowship in Reproductive Infectious Disease at the University of California, San Francisco, she lived and worked in rural Uganda, and conducted research on placental malaria in HIV-infected and –uninfected women. Dr. Ades has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders on assignments in Aweil, South Sudan in 2012 and 2016, and in Irbid, Jordan in 2013. Dr. Ades is currently an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of Global Women’s Health at the New York University School of Medicine (NYUMC). Her clinical work is at the New York Harbor VA and at Gouverneur Health. At NYUMC, Dr. Ades has created an educational and research partnership with Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana. She is also the Director of the EMPOWER Clinic for Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Sexual Violence at Gouverneur Health on the Lower East Side. She also runs the EMPOWER lab at the NYU College of Global Public Health, where she has active research projects on family planning in Latina women, domestic violence in Latina women, and the reproductive health survivors of torture and survivors of sex trafficking and sexual violence.
Darin Portnoy, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine and Faculty for the Residency program in Family and Social Medicine and Attending Physician at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Darin is the former International Vice President of the medical humanitarian aid organization Doctors without Borders, Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF). Prior to this, he served as President of the Board of Directors of MSF in the United States and on its Board of Directors. He has worked with MSF since 1997 in Central Asia, Central America and throughout Africa with multiple assignments to South Sudan, and Liberia including a response to the recent Ebola epidemic. Since 2011 he has been a member of MSF USA’s Board of Advisors. In addition to work with MSF, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) in its North American office and is on the Advisory Committee for the Health and Human Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. He practices now at Montefiore’s Family Health Center in the Bronx. He previously worked in rural Colorado caring for ranchers, farmers and migrant workers and before that worked for 5 years with the United States Public Health Service as an Indian Health Service doctor on the Navajo Reservation.
Lisa Nathan, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health, and is the Director of the department’s Global Women’s Health Program. Dr. Nathan first began working in Africa prior to medical school, when she did volunteer work and research with HIV+ orphans in Kenya. During her OBGYN residency, she travelled to Benin to assist in a fistula surgical repair mission. She has since worked and consulted on fistula repair initiatives in Kenya, Benin, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Rwanda. Based in Rwanda since 2009, her work mainly focuses on maternal morbidity and mortality prevention. She has established a maternity center and mobile reproductive health program serving over thirty local villages.
Aerlyn Pfeil , is a certified professional midwife from Portland, Oregon. In 2011, after working as a home birth midwife, she joined MSF and went on to work in South Sudan, Haiti, Senegal, the Somali region of Ethiopia, and Papua New Guinea. In addition to performing clinical maternal health work, she has trained midwives and community health workers and treated survivors of sexual violence. Pfeil has also trained MSF staff on gender issues and the delivery of medical and psychological care for sexual violence survivors. In 2014, she served as medical team leader for MSF’s treatment and training program for survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea.
Denise Grady, moderator, is a science reporter at The New York Times.
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Regional Speaker Event
October 27, 7:00pm
Chicago (Schubas Tavern)
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Local MSF aid worker Rebecca Singer discusses the challenges that keep women in developing countries from getting the health care they urgently need. Rebecca will give a photo-based presentation about these challenges and share her experience treating women and children in Liberia, Kenya, Chad, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A Q&A will follow.
This is a FREE event, but seating is limited so please register in advance!
You may cancel your reservation if you are no longer able to attend.
About the presenter:
Rebecca Singer is a doctorally prepared nurse with over a decade of experience in humanitarian response and development work. She spent nearly five years with MSF, providing services to survivors of sexual and family violence in Liberia, Kenya, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea. Most recently, she was in Tanzania, working with Burundian refugees. She also worked with survivors of torture who had immigrated to the United States, ensuring that they had adequate health care. Ms. Singer has worked with several development organizations dedicated to improving coffee farmers’ lives. She was the executive director of Coffee Kids until March 2015. Before becoming a nurse, Ms. Singer worked in community relations and as a communications manager for a membership organization. The experiences shaped Rebecca’s embrace of direct patient care and advocacy with a community approach.
Read an interview with Rebecca Singer
Schubas Tavern
3159 North Southport Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60657
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Regional Speaker Event
October 21, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Annapolis, Maryland
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Local MSF aid worker Dr. Rachel Seay discusses the challenges that keep women in developing countries from getting the health care they urgently need. Rachel will give a photo-based presentation about these challenges and share her experiences treating women and children as an OBGYN for MSF in Sierra Leone and South Sudan and as visiting clinical faculty at hospitals in Haiti, Guatemala and Eritrea.
A Q&A will follow.
This is a FREE event, but seating is limited so please register in advance!
You may cancel your reservation if you are no longer able to attend.
About the presenter:
Dr. Seay is an OBGYN physician and researcher at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She received her MD from the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She completed her Internship and Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC, where she served as Chief Resident. She has served as Visiting Clinical Faculty in Thomonde, Haiti; at Hospital Nacional Juan Jose Ortega in Coatepeque, Guatemala; and at Orotta School of Medicine in Asmara, Eritrea. She has completed emergency OBGYN missions for MSF in Sierra Leone and South Sudan, and is involved in the “Because Tomorrow Needs Her” women’s health initiative. She is the 2015 Fellow in the History of American Ob/Gyn at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Washington DC. Dr. Seay’s scholarly interests include the history of medicine, strategies to decrease maternal mortality, and designing medical education curricula in global health.
Read an interview with Dr. Seay.
Conversation Room, Mellon Hall
60 College Ave., St. John’s College
Annapolis, MD 21401
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Regional Speaker Event
October 21, 5:30pm
Northwestern University
Local MSF aid worker Rebecca Singer discusses the challenges that keep women in developing countries from getting the health care they urgently need. Rebecca will give a photo-based presentation about these challenges and share her experience treating women and children in Liberia, Kenya, Chad, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A Q&A will follow.
This is a FREE event, but seating is limited so please arrive early.
About the presenter:
Rebecca Singer is a doctorally prepared nurse with over a decade of experience in humanitarian response and development work. She spent nearly five years with MSF, providing services to survivors of sexual and family violence in Liberia, Kenya, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea. Most recently, she was in Tanzania, working with Burundian refugees. She also worked with survivors of torture who had immigrated to the United States, ensuring that they had adequate health care. Ms. Singer has worked with several development organizations dedicated to improving coffee farmers’ lives. She was the executive director of Coffee Kids until March 2015. Before becoming a nurse, Ms. Singer worked in community relations and as a communications manager for a membership organization. The experiences shaped Rebecca’s embrace of direct patient care and advocacy with a community approach.
Read an interview with Rebecca Singer
Chambers Hall
600 Foster St., Ruan Conference Room
Evanston, Illinois 60208
Global Sexual Violence: Breaking the Cycle
Live event and webcast
October 13, 7pm PT/10pm ET
Seattle, WA
Buy tickets here ($5)
Or watch the live webcast here.
There has never been a more pressing time to speak out about the global pandemic of sexual violence. Order has broken down in numerous countries. Armed groups and individuals explicitly target girls and women for rape, trafficking, and forced “marriage.” Smugglers sell desperate refugees into slavery. Predators attack the displaced, exploiting their vulnerability. And the consequences, both immediate and long-term, are profound.
In the countries where Doctors Without Borders works, field workers encounter victims of sexual violence every day, providing treatment and counseling where and when possible. But they know they are only seeing the tip of the iceberg. It’s a cycle that repeats itself in stable and unstable places alike—attackers take advantage of disorder and impunity; shame and fear keep the majority of women and girls from reporting a crime or getting medical care; governments and societies fail to adequately address the issue; and the silence and negligence ensures it will keep happening.
This is a matter that affects all of us, wherever we live. Join Doctors Without Borders for a panel discussion about the challenges of treating victims of sexual violence. Experienced medical and mental health aid workers who have worked all over the world will discuss trying to reach those in need and provide care in these circumstances—what has been successful, what obstacles exist, and all that still needs to be done.
Viewer participation is encouraged via a chat feature available during the webcast.
Panelists:
Dr. Maria Pilar Luna Ramirez, is a medical doctor and OBGYN. She first worked with Médecins Sans Frontières in Liberia, after qualifying as an ob-gynae in 2008. She then continued working in the field in emergency obstetric projects in Sri Lanka, Democratic Republic of Congo and Pakistan, amongst others. Today Dr Luna is based in Sydney and works as a medical advisor within Médecins Sans Frontières’ medical department, providing supervision both remotely and in the field for Médecins Sans Frontières projects in countries including Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Afghanistan.
Dr. Lourdes Trigueros, is a medical doctor and psychiatrist, has completed seven assignments for MSF since 2008, holding progressively senior positions in MSF’s mental health programs, and was also twice a sexual violence expert for projects in Colombia and South Sudan. In Turkey, she mentored the mental health activities manager in a project for Syrian refugees. She has also treated victims of violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, South Sudan and Colombia. In 2008, she volunteered with the Spanish Red Cross in Madrid. She holds both a degree in medicine and a degree in psychiatry from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Currently, Dr. Trigueros is a professor of mental health and psychiatry at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, and a psychiatrist at the General Hospital San Juan de Dios.
Aerlyn Pfeil is a certified professional midwife from Portland, Oregon. In 2011, after working as a home birth midwife, she joined MSF and went on to work in South Sudan, Haiti, Senegal, the Somali region of Ethiopia, and Papua New Guinea. In addition to performing clinical maternal health work, she has trained midwives and community health workers and treated survivors of sexual violence. Pfeil has also trained MSF staff on gender issues and the delivery of medical and psychological care for sexual violence survivors. In 2014, she served as medical team leader for MSF’s treatment and training program for survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea. She is based in Portland, OR.
Rebecca Ullman has a master’s degree in maternal child health from Yale University and a certificate in international public health from the University of North Carolina. In addition, she received training in gender based violence, training of trainers, and community education. She has been a certified nurse midwife for 25 years. Ullman has done training of midwives who would educate community midwives in Tanzania and Ethiopia as well as worked in maternal child health projects for MSF in Ivory Coast, Laos, and South Sudan. Ullman lives in Seattle, WA.
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Ave. Seattle, WA 98101 Buy tickets here ($5)
Or watch the live webcast here.
Regional Speaker Event
October 13, 7:00pm
Madison, Wisconsin
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Local MSF aid worker Rebecca Singer discusses the challenges that keep women in developing countries from getting the health care they urgently need. Rebecca will give a photo-based presentation about these challenges and share her experience treating women and children in Liberia, Kenya, Chad, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A Q&A will follow.
This is a FREE event, but seating is limited so please register in advance!
You may cancel your reservation if you are no longer able to attend.
About the presenter:
Rebecca Singer is a doctorally prepared nurse with over a decade of experience in humanitarian response and development work. She spent nearly five years with MSF, providing services to survivors of sexual and family violence in Liberia, Kenya, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea. Most recently, she was in Tanzania, working with Burundian refugees. She also worked with survivors of torture who had immigrated to the United States, ensuring that they had adequate health care. Ms. Singer has worked with several development organizations dedicated to improving coffee farmers’ lives. She was the executive director of Coffee Kids until March 2015. Before becoming a nurse, Ms. Singer worked in community relations and as a communications manager for a membership organization. The experiences shaped Rebecca’s embrace of direct patient care and advocacy with a community approach.
Read an interview with Rebecca Singer
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
227 State Street
Madison, WI 53703
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Women and HIV: Ask Me Anything on Reddit
Friday, September 18, 12pm ET
www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes
Join Dr. Helen Bygrave, MSF HIV advisor, at Reddit on September 18 at 12pm ET for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) online Q&A session on women and HIV. This event will be hosted on the popular forum TwoXChromosomes.
In order to participate, you must register for a Reddit account (takes 10 seconds).
Men and women are both susceptible to HIV, but women are more likely to be infected, as well as affected by the disease.
In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, 60 percent of people living with HIV are female. Women in many countries often don’t have control over when or whether they have sex, or whether protection will be used. On top of that, they also have to worry about transmitting HIV to their unborn babies and breastfeeding infants.
Thirty years after the identification of HIV/AIDS and more than a decade since effective treatment became accessible in developing countries, women in particular still face daunting obstacles to getting the care they need.
About Helen Bygrave:
Dr. Bygrave trained at Cambridge University and University College London School of Medicine. Since 2005, she has worked for MSF, supporting HIV/TB programs across Africa and Asia. She currently works as one of MSF’s HIV/TB advisors in the Southern Africa Medical Unit. One of her major focuses has been supporting the field implementation of Prevention of Mother to Child HIV Transmission (PMTCT) programs, including operationalizing PMTCT B+.
Regional Speaker Event
Tuesday, September 15, 6:00PM
Asheville, NC
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Local MSF aid worker Durell Hiller discusses the challenges that keep women in developing countries from getting the health care they urgently need. Durell will give a photo-based presentation about these challenges and share his experiences treating women and children as an OBGYN for MSF in South Sudan and Nigeria. A Q&A will follow.
This is a FREE event, but seating is limited so please register in advance!
You may cancel your reservation if you are no longer able to attend.
About the presenter:
Durell A. Hiller, III graduated from the Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Medical School and completed an obstetrical/gynecological residency in Denver, Colorado. He was active duty military with the U.S. Army Medical Corps and participated in Operation Desert Storm. Following nearly three decades of practice with a private firm, Durell retired in 2010 and lives in northeast Tennessee.
Pack Memorial Library
67 Haywood Street
Asheville, NC 28801
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Regional Speaker Event
August 27, 6:00pm
Johnson City, Tennessee
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Local MSF aid worker Durell Hiller discusses the challenges that keep women in developing countries from getting the health care they urgently need. Durell will give a photo-based presentation about these challenges and share his experiences treating women and children as an OBGYN for MSF in South Sudan and Nigeria. A Q&A will follow.
This is a FREE event, but seating is limited so please register in advance!
You may cancel your reservation if you are no longer able to attend.
About the presenter:
Durell A. Hiller, III graduated from the Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Medical School and completed an obstetrical/gynecological residency in Denver, Colorado. He was active duty military with the U.S. Army Medical Corps and participated in Operation Desert Storm. Following nearly three decades of practice with a private firm, Durell retired in 2010 and lives in northeast Tennessee.
JOHNSON CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY
100 W MILLARD ST
JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE 37604
UNITED STATES
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Webcast on the Challenges to Ending Obstetric Fistula, Thursday, June 25, 8pm ET!
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Join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for an in-depth conversation about one of the most painful, and preventable, maternal maladies: obstetric fistulas. They have all but vanished in prosperous countries, where women can get emergency obstetric care, but in developing regions, some 50,000 to 100,000 girls and women develop an obstetric fistula every year. This happens when girls or women endure prolonged, obstructed labor and cannot access emergency care. The result is an opening between the womb and the woman’s bladder or rectum that causes her to leak urine or feces for the rest of her life, unless she receives effective treatment.
Women living with a fistula frequently live as outcasts, rejected from family and community. The physical pain, combined with the social implications, can make life unbearable. On June 25, as part of MSF’s ongoing Because Tomorrow Needs Her project on women’s health, three fistula experts will discuss why women continue to develop this preventable condition, the impact fistulas have on women, their families and their communities, and the options that exist for treatment and prevention.
Viewer participation is encouraged via a chat feature available during the webcast. Panelists:
Africa Stewart, Ob/Gyn, worked at an MSF fistula project in Jahun, Nigeria. She has completed two other MSF assignments, in Sudan and South Sudan. Dr. Stewart was a panelist on the first Because Tomorrow Needs Her webcast in March 2015.
Wilma van den Boogaard, MPH, has worked with MSF for more than 20 years. In 2012, she organized a fistula repair project in Burundi, which included a training program for surgeons. She is currently an operational research support officer for MSF.
Gillian Slinger is a trained midwife and was the coordinator of UNFPA’s Campaign to End Fistula, where she helped created the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula. She is now the project manager of the Fistula Surgery Training Initiative for the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) in London, and is a member of the board of directors for MSF-Switzerland.
Nina Strochlic, moderator, is a reporter at the Daily Beast, covering women’s rights and international development. She also moderated the first Because Tomorrow Needs Her webcast in March 2015.
This is the second webcast for the global women’s health campaign, Because Tomorrow Needs Her.
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Regional Speaker Event
June 3, 2015 -7:30pm
Portland, Oregon
Join us for a special event to celebrate the launch of Because Tomorrow Needs Her, a multimedia campaign highlighting MSF’s efforts to provide accessible, high-quality health care to women and girls around the world.
Leading the discussion will be Aerlyn Pfeil, a certified professional midwife from Portland, Oregon. In 2011, after working as a home birth midwife, she joined MSF and went on to work in South Sudan, Haiti, Senegal, the Somali region of Ethiopia, and Papua New Guinea. In addition to performing clinical maternal health work, she has trained midwives and community health workers and treated survivors of sexual violence. Pfeil has also trained MSF staff on gender issues and the delivery of medical and psychological care for sexual violence survivors. In 2014, she served as medical team leader for MSF’s treatment and training program for survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea.
Where:
TABOR SPACE
5441 SE BELMONT ST
PORTLAND 97215
UNITED STATES
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Midwife Recruitment Twitter Chat – Work With MSF in the Field!
May 5 at 1pm EST: Midwives and midwifery students are invited to join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) field recruitment officers Melissa Bieri and Rogier Van Helmond for a Tweet Chat on working with MSF in the field. Joining our recruitment officers will be Aerlyn Pfeil, a Portland based midwife and MSF aid worker who has worked in South Sudan, Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea. Together they will take your questions about what sort of midwives MSF is looking for, what the requirements are to work with MSF, what it is like to work in the field, and any other recruitment-related concerns in 140 characters or less.
To participate in the Tweet Chat, log into Twitter and search for #MSFchat – we will use this hashtag at the end of every answer and we ask that all questions contain this hashtag as well so we can see them. Refresh your feed to see new questions and answers. The Tweet chat will run for one hour.
*This targeted recruitment chat is intended specifically for midwife personnel interested in working with Doctors Without Borders. All other professionals are invited to participate in our general recruitment webinar on Wednesday, April 15 or attend a live information session in a city near you. Many general questions can also be answered in the Work in the Field section of our website: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/work-us/work-field
Reddit AMA on Women’s Health
The AMA is over but you can see it here.
April 16, 2015 – 3:00pm
MSF OBGYN Veronica Ades will answer questions about issues and challenges around delivering obstetric and gynecological care to women in and from developing countries on April 16 at 3pm ET on Reddit at: www.reddit.com/r/twoxchromosomes.
In order to participate, you must create an account (takes only a minute!).
This Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) is in support of MSF’s new multimedia project on women’s health Because Tomorrow Needs Her.
About Dr. Ades:
Veronica Ades, MD, MPH, is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist. Dr. Ades has worked with MSF on assignments in Aweil, South Sudan, in 2012 and in Irbid, Jordan, in 2013. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of Global Women’s Health at the New York University School of Medicine (NYUMC). Her clinical work is at the New York Harbor VA and at Gouverneur Health. At NYUMC, she created an educational and research partnership with Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana. She is also the Director of the EMPOWER Clinic for Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Sexual Violence at Gouverneur Health on the Lower East Side on New York City.
Her main research focus is on post-sexual trauma gynecologic care. She is actively researching projects on family planning in Latina women, domestic violence in Latina women, and the reproductive health survivors of torture and survivors of sex trafficking and sexual violence.
Related links:
womenshealth.msf.org
veronica-wanderlust.blogspot.com
blogs.msf.org/veronicaa
empowergyn.org
Photography Exhibition Wednesday, March 4, to Tuesday, March 10, 2015
At the Schimmel Center at Pace University, 3 Spruce St., New York City
Accessible 10:00am-5:00pm daily
See an exhibition of images by award-winning, internationally
recognized photojournalists covering issues related
to women’s health in developing countries.
Photos by Martina Bacigalupo, Patrick Farrell, Kate Geraghty, and Sydelle Willow Smith
explore the stories of individual women struggling to get the medical care
they need in Burundi, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and Malawi.
Part of the Because Tomorrow Needs Her: The Fight for Women’s Health
multimedia project by Doctors Without Borders.
Live Panel Discussion and Photography Exhibit at Pace University Wednesday, March 4, 2015 Doors open at 5:30pm and the panel discussion begins at 7:30pm
At the Schimmel Center at Pace University, 3 Spruce St., New York City
Join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
for a panel discussion marking the launch of “Because Tomorrow Needs Her.”
Women’s health experts will talk about their experiences
treating women in developing countries, the successes, the challenges,
and what needs to be done to save more of the 800 women
who die every day due to pregnancy-related causes.
See an exhibition of images by internationally recognized
photojournalists Martina Bacigalupo, Patrick Farrell, Kate Geraghty,
and Sydelle Willow Smith covering the issues related to women’s health
in developing countries.
See a recording of the event here
Webcast: “Because Tomorrow Needs Her” Launch Wednesday, March 4, 2015 7:30 pm
Join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for a special webcast marking the launch of “Because Tomorrow Needs Her.” Women’s health experts will talk about their experiences treating women in developing countries, the successes, the challenges, and what needs to be done to save more of the 800 women who die every day due to pregnancy-related causes.
See the recorded webcast here
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PAST EVENTS
Because Tomorrow Needs Her Photo Exhibit – NYC
WHEN
Thursday, May 5 to Tuesday, May 31
9:00 AM – 9:00 PM
WHERE
Forchheimer Main Street Cafe
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1300 Morris Park Ave
Bronx, NY 10461
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Free and open to the public
Join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for a special photo exhibit and panel discussion related to Because Tomorrow Needs Her, a multimedia project about the efforts undertaken by MSF to improve the access to and quality of women’s health care worldwide.
We know how to save their lives, yet more than 800 women die every day from pregnancy-related causes. We know how to ease their suffering, yet many victims of sexual violence go without any medical or psychological care.
Millions of babies die in the first weeks of life from preventable causes. And while we know how to keep HIV-positive mothers from passing the virus to their babies, every day 700 children come into the world with HIV.
An exhibition of photographs by international, award-winning photojournalists covering women’s health in developing countries will be on display from May 5 to May 31 on the first floor of the Forchheimer Medical Science Building. For more information about the free panel discussion on May 18, featuring MSF and Einstein field workers, click here.
For directions and parking information, please click here.
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Because Tomorrow Needs Her Panel Discussion – NYC
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
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WHEN
6:00 PM Reception – Forchheimer Main Street Cafe
7:00 PM Panel Discussion – Robbins Auditorium
WHERE
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1300 Morris Park Ave
Bronx, NY 10461
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REGISTER HERE
Join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for a special photo exhibit and panel discussion related to Because Tomorrow Needs Her, a multimedia project about the efforts undertaken by MSF to improve the access to and quality of women’s health care worldwide.
Following the reception, Denise Grady of the New York Times will lead a discussion between MSF field workers and the director of Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s Global Women’s Health Program, who will all share stories of women they’ve been able to help, those they haven’t, and what still needs to be done.
This event will correspond with an exhibition of photographs by international, award-winning photojournalists covering women’s health in developing countries. The exhibit will be on display from May 5 to May 31, from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM, on the first floor of the Forchheimer Medical Science Building. More info
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Panelists:
Veronica Ades, MD, MPH, is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist. During her fellowship in Reproductive Infectious Disease at the University of California, San Francisco, she lived and worked in rural Uganda, and conducted research on placental malaria in HIV-infected and –uninfected women. Dr. Ades has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders on assignments in Aweil, South Sudan in 2012 and 2016, and in Irbid, Jordan in 2013. Dr. Ades is currently an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of Global Women’s Health at the New York University School of Medicine (NYUMC). Her clinical work is at the New York Harbor VA and at Gouverneur Health. At NYUMC, Dr. Ades has created an educational and research partnership with Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana. She is also the Director of the EMPOWER Clinic for Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Sexual Violence at Gouverneur Health on the Lower East Side. She also runs the EMPOWER lab at the NYU College of Global Public Health, where she has active research projects on family planning in Latina women, domestic violence in Latina women, and the reproductive health survivors of torture and survivors of sex trafficking and sexual violence.
Darin Portnoy, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine and Faculty for the Residency program in Family and Social Medicine and Attending Physician at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Darin is the former International Vice President of the medical humanitarian aid organization Doctors without Borders, Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF). Prior to this, he served as President of the Board of Directors of MSF in the United States and on its Board of Directors. He has worked with MSF since 1997 in Central Asia, Central America and throughout Africa with multiple assignments to South Sudan, and Liberia including a response to the recent Ebola epidemic. Since 2011 he has been a member of MSF USA’s Board of Advisors. In addition to work with MSF, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) in its North American office and is on the Advisory Committee for the Health and Human Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. He practices now at Montefiore’s Family Health Center in the Bronx. He previously worked in rural Colorado caring for ranchers, farmers and migrant workers and before that worked for 5 years with the United States Public Health Service as an Indian Health Service doctor on the Navajo Reservation.
Lisa Nathan, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health, and is the Director of the department’s Global Women’s Health Program. Dr. Nathan first began working in Africa prior to medical school, when she did volunteer work and research with HIV+ orphans in Kenya. During her OBGYN residency, she travelled to Benin to assist in a fistula surgical repair mission. She has since worked and consulted on fistula repair initiatives in Kenya, Benin, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Rwanda. Based in Rwanda since 2009, her work mainly focuses on maternal morbidity and mortality prevention. She has established a maternity center and mobile reproductive health program serving over thirty local villages.
Aerlyn Pfeil , is a certified professional midwife from Portland, Oregon. In 2011, after working as a home birth midwife, she joined MSF and went on to work in South Sudan, Haiti, Senegal, the Somali region of Ethiopia, and Papua New Guinea. In addition to performing clinical maternal health work, she has trained midwives and community health workers and treated survivors of sexual violence. Pfeil has also trained MSF staff on gender issues and the delivery of medical and psychological care for sexual violence survivors. In 2014, she served as medical team leader for MSF’s treatment and training program for survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea.
Denise Grady, moderator, is a science reporter at The New York Times.
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#TomorrowNeedsHer
MSF nurse Rebecca Singer
October 27, 7:00pm
Chicago (Schubas Tavern)
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Local MSF aid worker Rebecca Singer discusses the challenges that keep women in developing countries from getting the health care they urgently need. Rebecca will give a photo-based presentation about these challenges and share her experience treating women and children in Liberia, Kenya, Chad, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A Q&A will follow.
This is a FREE event, but seating is limited so please register in advance!
You may cancel your reservation if you are no longer able to attend.
About the presenter:
Rebecca Singer is a doctorally prepared nurse with over a decade of experience in humanitarian response and development work. She spent nearly five years with MSF, providing services to survivors of sexual and family violence in Liberia, Kenya, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea. Most recently, she was in Tanzania, working with Burundian refugees. She also worked with survivors of torture who had immigrated to the United States, ensuring that they had adequate health care. Ms. Singer has worked with several development organizations dedicated to improving coffee farmers’ lives. She was the executive director of Coffee Kids until March 2015. Before becoming a nurse, Ms. Singer worked in community relations and as a communications manager for a membership organization. The experiences shaped Rebecca’s embrace of direct patient care and advocacy with a community approach.
Read an interview with Rebecca Singer
Schubas Tavern
3159 North Southport Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60657
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MSF OBGYN Rachel Seay
October 21, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Annapolis, Maryland
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Local MSF aid worker Dr. Rachel Seay discusses the challenges that keep women in developing countries from getting the health care they urgently need. Rachel will give a photo-based presentation about these challenges and share her experiences treating women and children as an OBGYN for MSF in Sierra Leone and South Sudan and as visiting clinical faculty at hospitals in Haiti, Guatemala and Eritrea.
A Q&A will follow.
This is a FREE event, but seating is limited so please register in advance!
You may cancel your reservation if you are no longer able to attend.
About the presenter:
Dr. Seay is an OBGYN physician and researcher at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She received her MD from the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She completed her Internship and Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC, where she served as Chief Resident. She has served as Visiting Clinical Faculty in Thomonde, Haiti; at Hospital Nacional Juan Jose Ortega in Coatepeque, Guatemala; and at Orotta School of Medicine in Asmara, Eritrea. She has completed emergency OBGYN missions for MSF in Sierra Leone and South Sudan, and is involved in the “Because Tomorrow Needs Her” women’s health initiative. She is the 2015 Fellow in the History of American Ob/Gyn at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Washington DC. Dr. Seay’s scholarly interests include the history of medicine, strategies to decrease maternal mortality, and designing medical education curricula in global health.
Read an interview with Dr. Seay.
Conversation Room, Mellon Hall
60 College Ave., St. John’s College
Annapolis, MD 21401
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MSF nurse Rebecca Singer
October 21, 5:30pm
Northwestern University
Local MSF aid worker Rebecca Singer discusses the challenges that keep women in developing countries from getting the health care they urgently need. Rebecca will give a photo-based presentation about these challenges and share her experience treating women and children in Liberia, Kenya, Chad, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A Q&A will follow.
This is a FREE event, but seating is limited so please arrive early.
About the presenter:
Rebecca Singer is a doctorally prepared nurse with over a decade of experience in humanitarian response and development work. She spent nearly five years with MSF, providing services to survivors of sexual and family violence in Liberia, Kenya, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea. Most recently, she was in Tanzania, working with Burundian refugees. She also worked with survivors of torture who had immigrated to the United States, ensuring that they had adequate health care. Ms. Singer has worked with several development organizations dedicated to improving coffee farmers’ lives. She was the executive director of Coffee Kids until March 2015. Before becoming a nurse, Ms. Singer worked in community relations and as a communications manager for a membership organization. The experiences shaped Rebecca’s embrace of direct patient care and advocacy with a community approach.
Read an interview with Rebecca Singer
Chambers Hall
600 Foster St., Ruan Conference Room
Evanston, Illinois 60208
Photo by Yann Libessart/MSF
Live event and webcast
October 13, 7pm PT/10pm ET
Seattle, WA
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Or watch the live webcast here.
There has never been a more pressing time to speak out about the global pandemic of sexual violence. Order has broken down in numerous countries. Armed groups and individuals explicitly target girls and women for rape, trafficking, and forced “marriage.” Smugglers sell desperate refugees into slavery. Predators attack the displaced, exploiting their vulnerability. And the consequences, both immediate and long-term, are profound.
In the countries where Doctors Without Borders works, field workers encounter victims of sexual violence every day, providing treatment and counseling where and when possible. But they know they are only seeing the tip of the iceberg. It’s a cycle that repeats itself in stable and unstable places alike—attackers take advantage of disorder and impunity; shame and fear keep the majority of women and girls from reporting a crime or getting medical care; governments and societies fail to adequately address the issue; and the silence and negligence ensures it will keep happening.
This is a matter that affects all of us, wherever we live. Join Doctors Without Borders for a panel discussion about the challenges of treating victims of sexual violence. Experienced medical and mental health aid workers who have worked all over the world will discuss trying to reach those in need and provide care in these circumstances—what has been successful, what obstacles exist, and all that still needs to be done.
Viewer participation is encouraged via a chat feature available during the webcast.
Panelists:
Dr. Maria Pilar Luna Ramirez, is a medical doctor and OBGYN. She first worked with Médecins Sans Frontières in Liberia, after qualifying as an ob-gynae in 2008. She then continued working in the field in emergency obstetric projects in Sri Lanka, Democratic Republic of Congo and Pakistan, amongst others. Today Dr Luna is based in Sydney and works as a medical advisor within Médecins Sans Frontières’ medical department, providing supervision both remotely and in the field for Médecins Sans Frontières projects in countries including Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Afghanistan.
Dr. Lourdes Trigueros, is a medical doctor and psychiatrist, has completed seven assignments for MSF since 2008, holding progressively senior positions in MSF’s mental health programs, and was also twice a sexual violence expert for projects in Colombia and South Sudan. In Turkey, she mentored the mental health activities manager in a project for Syrian refugees. She has also treated victims of violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, South Sudan and Colombia. In 2008, she volunteered with the Spanish Red Cross in Madrid. She holds both a degree in medicine and a degree in psychiatry from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Currently, Dr. Trigueros is a professor of mental health and psychiatry at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, and a psychiatrist at the General Hospital San Juan de Dios.
Aerlyn Pfeil is a certified professional midwife from Portland, Oregon. In 2011, after working as a home birth midwife, she joined MSF and went on to work in South Sudan, Haiti, Senegal, the Somali region of Ethiopia, and Papua New Guinea. In addition to performing clinical maternal health work, she has trained midwives and community health workers and treated survivors of sexual violence. Pfeil has also trained MSF staff on gender issues and the delivery of medical and psychological care for sexual violence survivors. In 2014, she served as medical team leader for MSF’s treatment and training program for survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea. She is based in Portland, OR.
Rebecca Ullman has a master’s degree in maternal child health from Yale University and a certificate in international public health from the University of North Carolina. In addition, she received training in gender based violence, training of trainers, and community education. She has been a certified nurse midwife for 25 years. Ullman has done training of midwives who would educate community midwives in Tanzania and Ethiopia as well as worked in maternal child health projects for MSF in Ivory Coast, Laos, and South Sudan. Ullman lives in Seattle, WA.
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Ave. Seattle, WA 98101 Buy tickets here ($5)
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MSF nurse Rebecca Singer
October 13, 7:00pm
Madison, Wisconsin
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Local MSF aid worker Rebecca Singer discusses the challenges that keep women in developing countries from getting the health care they urgently need. Rebecca will give a photo-based presentation about these challenges and share her experience treating women and children in Liberia, Kenya, Chad, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A Q&A will follow.
This is a FREE event, but seating is limited so please register in advance!
You may cancel your reservation if you are no longer able to attend.
About the presenter:
Rebecca Singer is a doctorally prepared nurse with over a decade of experience in humanitarian response and development work. She spent nearly five years with MSF, providing services to survivors of sexual and family violence in Liberia, Kenya, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea. Most recently, she was in Tanzania, working with Burundian refugees. She also worked with survivors of torture who had immigrated to the United States, ensuring that they had adequate health care. Ms. Singer has worked with several development organizations dedicated to improving coffee farmers’ lives. She was the executive director of Coffee Kids until March 2015. Before becoming a nurse, Ms. Singer worked in community relations and as a communications manager for a membership organization. The experiences shaped Rebecca’s embrace of direct patient care and advocacy with a community approach.
Read an interview with Rebecca Singer
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
227 State Street
Madison, WI 53703
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Photo by Sydelle Willow Smith
Friday, September 18, 12pm ET
www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes
Join Dr. Helen Bygrave, MSF HIV advisor, at Reddit on September 18 at 12pm ET for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) online Q&A session on women and HIV. This event will be hosted on the popular forum TwoXChromosomes.
In order to participate, you must register for a Reddit account (takes 10 seconds).
Men and women are both susceptible to HIV, but women are more likely to be infected, as well as affected by the disease.
In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, 60 percent of people living with HIV are female. Women in many countries often don’t have control over when or whether they have sex, or whether protection will be used. On top of that, they also have to worry about transmitting HIV to their unborn babies and breastfeeding infants.
Thirty years after the identification of HIV/AIDS and more than a decade since effective treatment became accessible in developing countries, women in particular still face daunting obstacles to getting the care they need.
About Helen Bygrave:
Dr. Bygrave trained at Cambridge University and University College London School of Medicine. Since 2005, she has worked for MSF, supporting HIV/TB programs across Africa and Asia. She currently works as one of MSF’s HIV/TB advisors in the Southern Africa Medical Unit. One of her major focuses has been supporting the field implementation of Prevention of Mother to Child HIV Transmission (PMTCT) programs, including operationalizing PMTCT B+.
Durell Hiller, MSF OBGYN
Tuesday, September 15, 6:00PM
Asheville, NC
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Local MSF aid worker Durell Hiller discusses the challenges that keep women in developing countries from getting the health care they urgently need. Durell will give a photo-based presentation about these challenges and share his experiences treating women and children as an OBGYN for MSF in South Sudan and Nigeria. A Q&A will follow.
This is a FREE event, but seating is limited so please register in advance!
You may cancel your reservation if you are no longer able to attend.
About the presenter:
Durell A. Hiller, III graduated from the Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Medical School and completed an obstetrical/gynecological residency in Denver, Colorado. He was active duty military with the U.S. Army Medical Corps and participated in Operation Desert Storm. Following nearly three decades of practice with a private firm, Durell retired in 2010 and lives in northeast Tennessee.
Pack Memorial Library
67 Haywood Street
Asheville, NC 28801
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Durell Hiller, MSF OBGYN
August 27, 6:00pm
Johnson City, Tennessee
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Local MSF aid worker Durell Hiller discusses the challenges that keep women in developing countries from getting the health care they urgently need. Durell will give a photo-based presentation about these challenges and share his experiences treating women and children as an OBGYN for MSF in South Sudan and Nigeria. A Q&A will follow.
This is a FREE event, but seating is limited so please register in advance!
You may cancel your reservation if you are no longer able to attend.
About the presenter:
Durell A. Hiller, III graduated from the Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Medical School and completed an obstetrical/gynecological residency in Denver, Colorado. He was active duty military with the U.S. Army Medical Corps and participated in Operation Desert Storm. Following nearly three decades of practice with a private firm, Durell retired in 2010 and lives in northeast Tennessee.
JOHNSON CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY
100 W MILLARD ST
JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE 37604
UNITED STATES
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Webcast on the Challenges to Ending Obstetric Fistula, Thursday, June 25, 8pm ET!Register here
Join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for an in-depth conversation about one of the most painful, and preventable, maternal maladies: obstetric fistulas. They have all but vanished in prosperous countries, where women can get emergency obstetric care, but in developing regions, some 50,000 to 100,000 girls and women develop an obstetric fistula every year. This happens when girls or women endure prolonged, obstructed labor and cannot access emergency care. The result is an opening between the womb and the woman’s bladder or rectum that causes her to leak urine or feces for the rest of her life, unless she receives effective treatment.
Women living with a fistula frequently live as outcasts, rejected from family and community. The physical pain, combined with the social implications, can make life unbearable. On June 25, as part of MSF’s ongoing Because Tomorrow Needs Her project on women’s health, three fistula experts will discuss why women continue to develop this preventable condition, the impact fistulas have on women, their families and their communities, and the options that exist for treatment and prevention.
Viewer participation is encouraged via a chat feature available during the webcast. Panelists:
Africa Stewart, Ob/Gyn, worked at an MSF fistula project in Jahun, Nigeria. She has completed two other MSF assignments, in Sudan and South Sudan. Dr. Stewart was a panelist on the first Because Tomorrow Needs Her webcast in March 2015.
Wilma van den Boogaard, MPH, has worked with MSF for more than 20 years. In 2012, she organized a fistula repair project in Burundi, which included a training program for surgeons. She is currently an operational research support officer for MSF.
Gillian Slinger is a trained midwife and was the coordinator of UNFPA’s Campaign to End Fistula, where she helped created the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula. She is now the project manager of the Fistula Surgery Training Initiative for the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) in London, and is a member of the board of directors for MSF-Switzerland.
Nina Strochlic, moderator, is a reporter at the Daily Beast, covering women’s rights and international development. She also moderated the first Because Tomorrow Needs Her webcast in March 2015.
This is the second webcast for the global women’s health campaign, Because Tomorrow Needs Her.
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MSF midwife Aerlyn Pfeil
June 3, 2015 -7:30pm
Portland, Oregon
Join us for a special event to celebrate the launch of Because Tomorrow Needs Her, a multimedia campaign highlighting MSF’s efforts to provide accessible, high-quality health care to women and girls around the world.
Leading the discussion will be Aerlyn Pfeil, a certified professional midwife from Portland, Oregon. In 2011, after working as a home birth midwife, she joined MSF and went on to work in South Sudan, Haiti, Senegal, the Somali region of Ethiopia, and Papua New Guinea. In addition to performing clinical maternal health work, she has trained midwives and community health workers and treated survivors of sexual violence. Pfeil has also trained MSF staff on gender issues and the delivery of medical and psychological care for sexual violence survivors. In 2014, she served as medical team leader for MSF’s treatment and training program for survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea.
Where:
TABOR SPACE
5441 SE BELMONT ST
PORTLAND 97215
UNITED STATES
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Midwife Recruitment Twitter Chat – Work With MSF in the Field!
May 5 at 1pm EST: Midwives and midwifery students are invited to join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) field recruitment officers Melissa Bieri and Rogier Van Helmond for a Tweet Chat on working with MSF in the field. Joining our recruitment officers will be Aerlyn Pfeil, a Portland based midwife and MSF aid worker who has worked in South Sudan, Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea. Together they will take your questions about what sort of midwives MSF is looking for, what the requirements are to work with MSF, what it is like to work in the field, and any other recruitment-related concerns in 140 characters or less.
To participate in the Tweet Chat, log into Twitter and search for #MSFchat – we will use this hashtag at the end of every answer and we ask that all questions contain this hashtag as well so we can see them. Refresh your feed to see new questions and answers. The Tweet chat will run for one hour.
*This targeted recruitment chat is intended specifically for midwife personnel interested in working with Doctors Without Borders. All other professionals are invited to participate in our general recruitment webinar on Wednesday, April 15 or attend a live information session in a city near you. Many general questions can also be answered in the Work in the Field section of our website: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/work-us/work-field
OBGYN Veronica Ades worked with MSF in Aweil, South Sudan, in 2012. Photo by Lisa Jones
Reddit AMA on Women’s Health
The AMA is over but you can see it here.
April 16, 2015 – 3:00pm
MSF OBGYN Veronica Ades will answer questions about issues and challenges around delivering obstetric and gynecological care to women in and from developing countries on April 16 at 3pm ET on Reddit at: www.reddit.com/r/twoxchromosomes.
In order to participate, you must create an account (takes only a minute!).
This Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) is in support of MSF’s new multimedia project on women’s health Because Tomorrow Needs Her.
About Dr. Ades:
Veronica Ades, MD, MPH, is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist. Dr. Ades has worked with MSF on assignments in Aweil, South Sudan, in 2012 and in Irbid, Jordan, in 2013. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of Global Women’s Health at the New York University School of Medicine (NYUMC). Her clinical work is at the New York Harbor VA and at Gouverneur Health. At NYUMC, she created an educational and research partnership with Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana. She is also the Director of the EMPOWER Clinic for Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Sexual Violence at Gouverneur Health on the Lower East Side on New York City.
Her main research focus is on post-sexual trauma gynecologic care. She is actively researching projects on family planning in Latina women, domestic violence in Latina women, and the reproductive health survivors of torture and survivors of sex trafficking and sexual violence.
Related links:
womenshealth.msf.org
veronica-wanderlust.blogspot.com
blogs.msf.org/veronicaa
empowergyn.org
Photography Exhibition Wednesday, March 4, to Tuesday, March 10, 2015
At the Schimmel Center at Pace University, 3 Spruce St., New York City
Accessible 10:00am-5:00pm daily
See an exhibition of images by award-winning, internationally
recognized photojournalists covering issues related
to women’s health in developing countries.
Photos by Martina Bacigalupo, Patrick Farrell, Kate Geraghty, and Sydelle Willow Smith
explore the stories of individual women struggling to get the medical care
they need in Burundi, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and Malawi.
Part of the Because Tomorrow Needs Her: The Fight for Women’s Health
multimedia project by Doctors Without Borders.
Live Panel Discussion and Photography Exhibit at Pace University Wednesday, March 4, 2015 Doors open at 5:30pm and the panel discussion begins at 7:30pm
At the Schimmel Center at Pace University, 3 Spruce St., New York City
Join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
for a panel discussion marking the launch of “Because Tomorrow Needs Her.”
Women’s health experts will talk about their experiences
treating women in developing countries, the successes, the challenges,
and what needs to be done to save more of the 800 women
who die every day due to pregnancy-related causes.
See an exhibition of images by internationally recognized
photojournalists Martina Bacigalupo, Patrick Farrell, Kate Geraghty,
and Sydelle Willow Smith covering the issues related to women’s health
in developing countries.
See a recording of the event here
Webcast: “Because Tomorrow Needs Her” Launch Wednesday, March 4, 2015 7:30 pm
Join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for a special webcast marking the launch of “Because Tomorrow Needs Her.” Women’s health experts will talk about their experiences treating women in developing countries, the successes, the challenges, and what needs to be done to save more of the 800 women who die every day due to pregnancy-related causes.
See the recorded webcast here