HCRI conference
08
July
2025
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12:55
Europe/London
HCRI co-hosts international conference on Non-Communicable Diseases and Humanitarian Medicine
The HCRI collaborated with M茅decins Sans Fronti猫res (MSF), Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and University of Kisii, to bring together healthcare professionals, humanitarian staff, and academics from East Africa and the UK in Kenya.
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) co-hosted the conference 鈥楴on-Communicable Diseases and Humanitarian Medicine: Current, Critical, and Historical Perspectives on Medical Treatments of Displaced Populations鈥� on 25-26 June 2025 in Kisii, Kenya.
This inaugural conference at the University of Kisii was developed with the Anthropology Unit of MSF, the , HCRI鈥檚 Developing Humanitarian Medicine project team.
It featured six roundtables over two days with key experts from the humanitarian, academic and medical sectors.
The following HCRI academics contributed to sessions:
- Prof Bertrand Taithe and Dr Pesh Muwanguzi on 鈥榃hat Future for 鈥楥hronic鈥� Emergencies? Challenges and Possibilities of NCD Management in Humanitarian Contexts鈥�.
- Dr Maria Cullen, Dr Costanza Torre and Prof Bertrand Taithe on 鈥楥an Humanitarianism Learn from Its Mistakes? Integrating Historical and Critical Perspectives in the Management of NCDs鈥�.
- Dr Janelle Winters and Dr Chimwemwe Phiri on 鈥�(How) Can humanitarians disrupt NCD drug and diagnostics markets? Drugs, Medical Marketplaces, and Patient Groups鈥�.
- Dr Chimwemwe Phiri and Dr Janelle Winters on 鈥楤ridging the Divide 鈥� Can High-Tech and Low-Tech Solutions Truly Revolutionize NCD Care in Crisis Settings?鈥�
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