About MSF

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is a global network of principled professionals who specialise in medical humanitarian work driven by our common humanity and guided by medical ethics. We work together in teams, small and large, to respond to the medical needs of people affected by conflict, disasters, epidemics, and those excluded from healthcare.

Within MSF Operational Centre Brussels (OCB), the Medical Department provides strategic direction and technical leadership, committing to keeping up to date on innovations in health care. We share the responsibility of the operational choices and the responsiveness, and we are involved in the support of our project teams co‑developing context‑adapted medical‑operational strategies and defining levels of care. The department also does normative work (e.g., developing guidelines, tools) and enables operational research and innovative ideas. Composed of multiple specialists based across a network of units acros...