Ebola transportation workshop with the WHO, discussing climate and health adaptation with the Lancet Countdown and leveraging AI for COVID-19 outbreak understanding. Read on for more…

Looking back at some of the highs and lows of 2019 to prepare us for the new decade guided by some essential learnings.

How might we create a low cost, securing system that enables complicated pediatric wound dressings to remain in place? In the MSF context, we are faced with many different types of wounds - some of the most challenging being those of the pediatric cases we see.

At the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit (SIU), we practice a human-centered design approach to innovation projects. Essentially this means that we strive to consistently put end-users first and ensure their needs are properly researched, understood and analysed as the first stage of any MSF SIU innovation project.

As with any innovation project collaboration is central to success. When it came to optimizing MSF autoclaves, a core part of MSF Field operations, this realisation was put into action resulting in close partnership with various MSF operational centres, health system actors, industry and academia. MSF know a lot - but we by no means know it all. 

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world’s deadliest diseases with a staggering 25% of the world’s population affected by the infection  resulting in an estimated 1.8 million deaths a year.