Talk by nurse and humanitarian Dame Claire Bertschinger
Friday 6th March 2015
Venue: Anglia Ruskin University
Category: Talks & Classes
One Liner: Talk
Price Info: Free
Time Info: 6-7pm
Dame Claire Bertschinger is the nurse and humanitarian whose work during the famine in Ethiopia, in the mid-80s, was first brought to the attention of the western world by BBCs Michael Buerk and which inspired Bob Geldof to set up band Aid and subsequent Live Aid.
Claire now works at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as the Director for the Diploma in Tropical Nursing and was honoured as Dame Commander of British Empire by the Queen in 2010 New Year's Honours List. She was made a Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire in 2012. Claire has worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross as a nurse in over a dozen war zones across the world including Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Lebanon and Afghanistan. Since retiring from full-time field work, she has trained other medical professionals to work in resource poor settings and continually sought to raise awareness of the key issues in global public health.
In 2005 she was awarded Woman of the Year Window to the World award. In 1991 she was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, and in 1985 the Bish Medal by the Scientific Exploration Society.
Claire has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from six different UK universities, including Anglia Ruskin University in 2012. In 2005 she published her biography, Moving Mountains.
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