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While Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is known mostly for providing direct medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health services, we also conduct research aimed at improving patient care and advocating for evidence-based policy and practices. To this end we conduct hundreds of research studies each year, publish extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and present our findings at scientific conferences around the world, including several annual MSF-organized events.


With the MSF Science Portal we introduce a new platform that aims to be a « one-stop shop » for content related to this work, so that users anywhere can easily find, browse, access, share and use the knowledge our research generates. Alongside frequent updates of new publications, conference materials, reports and featured content, we will continue to develop this site and to expand its range of content. To learn more about the Portal and what it offers, check out the short videos and slide presentation in this collection.

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A tour of the MSF Science Portal

Kahn P, Burgess B, Leader C, Chaudhuri J
2022-05-10 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-10 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
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The MSF Science Portal: a “one-stop shop” for our public research content

Kahn P, Brooks JR, Leader C, Hoyt O
2021-05-20 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Innovation
2021-05-20 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Innovation
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The MSF Science Portal: A “one-stop shop” for our public research content

Kahn P, Brooks JR, Leader C, Hoyt O
2021-05-20 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Innovation
2021-05-20 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Innovation
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Each year MSF conducts hundreds of research studies to help fill gaps in the medical knowledge needed for our humanitarian work, and then disseminates the findi...
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The MSF Science Portal: A “one-stop shop” for our public research content

Kahn P, Brooks JR, Leader C, Hoyt O
2021-05-20 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Innovation
2021-05-20 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Innovation

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Diabetes care in humanitarian settings

Diabetes care in humanitarian settings
Diabetes affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide, a large majority of them living in low- and middle-income countries. Yet finding effective strategies, tools and policies for effectively managing this chronic illness—especially amid war, displacement or exclusion from care—is a neglected area of humanitarian medicine. Here we present a cross-section of work on this front by MSF and collaborators. Several studies assess the shift towards community-based, nurse-led models of care in rural settings. Others explore obstacles to diabetes care for war refugees living in camps in Jordan or Lebanon, highlighting how health programs can adapt to their needs. The demonstration that insulin retains potency for 30 days if cooled without refrigeration is opening doors to more patient self-management, as a case study in remote South Sudan shows. At the same time, MSF and others call for regulatory and financing policies that make diabetes medications and supplies cheaper, better adapted to humanitarian settings, and far more available to patients whose lives depend on them.
Nursing care at MSF

Nursing care at MSF
Nurses spend more time at the bedside than any other healthcare workers and are a cornerstone of quality, person-centered clinical care in MSF health facilities. Through research, MSF has also shown that empowering nurses can also help expand patient access to care. In this collection, we highlight some of the evidence gathered on nurse-led care models at MSF projects, including through strategies that strengthen nurses through innovative training approaches and bedside tools.
Mental health in humanitarian settings

Mental health in humanitarian settings
Complex humanitarian emergencies and other low-resource settings can be exceedingly difficult places to provide quality mental health (MH) care. Yet these environments also often have a high burden of mental health care needs. This collection presents a set of articles describing how MSF teams have adapted and evaluated ways of bringing clinically impactful MH care to neglected communities and patients—from forcibly displaced populations in northern Nigeria to Syrian refugees in Lebanon and typhoon survivors in the Philippines. It also highlights work on developing new tools for providing clinical supervision and for identifying those patients most in need of care in fragile settings, and on new approaches to delivering MH services during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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