Podcast appearances and mentions of James Orbinski

Do poverty, war, and health crises really lie outside of your responsibility? "I grew up with this sense of how inappropriate and unfair the world is. And how I shouldn't be passive in this injustice and that I shouldn't just take care of myself."  In short, we talk about this in the episode: How to become THAT person who saves lives worldwide on a Doctors Without Borders mission. What day-to-day humanitarian aid work is really like, beyond what you learn on the news. The emotional impact of working in crisis zones, how to cope with and grow through them.In more words: With an English-Canadian mother and a refugee from Iran for a father, Reza Eshaghian grew up with an awareness of multiculturalism and differences in living standards. Not wanting to follow in the footsteps of his father, a doctor, young Reza aspired to become a computer game developer instead - until a fateful book, “An Imperfect Offering” by James Orbinski, changed his path in life dramatically. With commendable persistence, Reza took each step of his education and career so he would eventually become eligible for his goal: Signing up as a humanitarian physician with Doctors Without Border / Médecins Sans Frontières and helping those fighting for survival in crisis zones around the world. In nine years of working with MSF, Reza has served in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, Yemen, and Ukraine. This episode offers a first-person account of the things you did not expect humanitarian aid work to be like. Among others, we delve into the following questions: What do you need to do to become a humanitarian doctor with MSF in the first place? Can you choose where to go? How can you reconcile a career at home with being abroad for months on end? In what ways is the fieldwork not all like you would expect? What emotional impact does this work have and how does one deal with it?  Thank you, Reza, for these valuable insights and the existential work you do. If you, dear listener/reader, want to help Reza and his colleagues help others, maybe you want to consider donating to MSF? Resources mentioned in this episode: Médecins Sans Frontières: www.msf.orgDonate here: www.msf.org/donateReza playing piano – “Kercha” on YouTube Reza's favourite Iranian dish - “Fezenjan”Book by James Orbinski - “An Imperfect Offering” Do you want to connect with Reza? Twitter: @reshaghian Do you enjoy WHYLD? Then get in touch! Quick one-stop-shop: www.linktr.ee/whyld.podcast Follow us on Instagram: @whyld.thepodcast Find us on Facebook: @whyld.one Or visit our website: www.whyld.one

Listen to a recording of Day 1: Global Public Health, of The Recovery Summit, a virtual, world-wide conference focused on charting the path to global recovery from COVID-19. We were joined by Dr. Christos Christou, the International President of Médecins Sans Frontières, Dr. Ilona Kickbusch, the Founder and Chair of the Global Health Centre, and Dr. Steven Hoffman, the Lead for the UN Research Roadmap for COVID-19 Recovery and Director of the Global Strategies Lab, for a discussion moderated by Dr. James Orbinski, Director of the Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health Research at York University and the Recovery Summit Co-Chair for Global Public Health.  

Jean-Yves Duclos, Treasury Board President; Tim Uppal, Conservative-Alberta; Peter Julian, NDP-B.C.; Perry Bellegarde, Assembly of First Nations; Susan Delacourt, Toronto Star; Joel-Denis Bellavance, La Presse; John Manley, Former Deputy Prime Minister; Dr. James Orbinski, York University, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research.

Last week, Canada 2020 hosted it's 5th Annual Health Innovation Summit, bringing together key representatives from across the health system to expose how advancements in technology and investments in innovation help improve health outcomes and reduce costs. Here's what you can expect from Part 3 of this episode of 2020 live: Special Presentation: Global Context, Global RisksDr. James Orbinski, Dahdeleh Centre for Global Health Research, York University The 3 P's of Health Politics in 2020 - Pharmacare, Provinces & PandemicTim Powers, Summa StrategiesAnne McGrath, National Director, NDPPeter Cleary, Santis Health

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Sean Fraser, Liberal-Nova Scotia; Don Davies, NDP-British Columbia; Cathy McLeod, Conservative-British Columbia; Adrian Dix, B.C. Health Minister; Doug Schweitzer, Alberta Justice Minister; Joel-Denis Bellavance, La Presse; Susan Delacourt, Toronto Star; Dr. James Orbinski, York University; Khelsilem, Squamish Nation Council; Gary Mar, Petroleum Services Association of Canada.

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In this interview from our archives, Dr. John Hoey has a fascinating discussion with Dr. James Orbinski. The interview was first published in February of the year 2000. At the time, Dr. John Hoey was editor-in-chief of CMAJ and Dr. James Orbinski was international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders, or MSF). Dr. Orbinski had just accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of MSF’s pioneering humanitarian work in several countries around the world. Dr. Orbinski and Dr. Hoey talk about war, humanitarian medicine, refugees, genocide, and more. These themes are just as relevant today as they were 19 years ago. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This podcast episode is brought to you by Audi Canada. The Canadian Medical Association has partnered with Audi Canada to offer CMA members a preferred incentive on select vehicle models. Purchase any new qualifying Audi model and receive an additional cash incentive based on the purchase type. Details of the incentive program can be found at www.audiprofessional.ca. ----------------------------------- Subscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Overcast, Instacast, or your favourite aggregator. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.

Listen in as Patrick and Michelle talk candidly about truth, injustice and provide important insights into the life of Omar Khadr.Synopsis of FilmOmar Khadr: child soldier or unrepentant terrorist? The 28-year-old Canadian has been a polarizing figure since he was 15. In 2002, Khadr was captured by Americans in Afghanistan and charged with war crimes. In October 2010, Khadr pleaded guilty to five war crimes, including “murder in violation of the laws of war,” in return for a plea deal that gave him an eight-year sentence and chance to return to Canada. Khadr later recanted his confession.His Guantanamo conviction is being appealed in the U.S courts. After spending nearly half his life behind bars, including a decade at Guantanamo, Khadr is suddenly released. Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr features unprecedented access and exclusive interviews with Khadr during his first few days of freedom in Edmonton, where he was released on bail on May 7, 2015.This documentary delivers an intimate portrait of how a teenager from a Toronto suburb became the center of one of the first U.S. war crimes trial since the prosecution of Nazi commanders in the 1940s. Khadr is the only juvenile ever tried for war crimes. Guantanamo’s Child gives Omar Khadr the opportunity to speak for himself on camera, for the first time.Based in part on Michelle Shephard’s authoritative book Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr, the documentary takes us from his childhood traveling between a Canadian suburb and Peshawar at the height of the jihad against the Soviets, to Afghanistan and the homes of Al Qaeda’s elite, into the notorious U.S. prisons at Bagram and Guantanamo Bay and back again to Canada. Finally, his story, in his own words.Patrick and Michelle BiosOver the past decade, Patrick Reed has collaborated on several award-winning documentaries for White Pine Pictures. These films have appeared at the most prestigious festivals, been broadcast around the world, honoured with awards and theatrically released. One of Reed’s first assignments with White Pine was researching and co-producing the multi-award-winning Shake Hands With The Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire. In 2007, Reed produced a ratings winner for CBC’s flagship documentary strand, Tar Sands: The Selling of Canada. He followed this up with Pets on Prozac, casting a suspicious eye on the growing phenomenon of pet pharmaceuticals. Reed’s film Triage followed Dr. James Orbinski back to Somalia and Rwanda where he was at the centre of far too many life and death decisions during those country’s years of upheaval. Triage had its world premiere at the 2007 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), where it was voted an audience favourite; and screened at the Sundance Film Festival 2008, and HotDocs, winning a number of international awards.Reed also directed Tsepong: A Clinic Called Hope, a cinema vérité chronicle of the work of doctors and nurses fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Lesotho, Africa. Tsepong received multiple 2007 Gemini Award nominations, and screened internationally at numerous festivals. Reed’s feature documentary, The Team – following the making of a soap opera in Kenya designed to bridge ethnic divides – had its world premiere at IDFA in 2010. The film screened at Human Rights Watch Festivals in London and New York, Full Frame, HotDocs and Silverdocs. Reed recently completed another documentary feature with White Pine Pictures about General Romeo Dallaire and child soldiers, Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children, shot in South Sudan, Rwanda and the DR Congo.———-Michelle Shephard has spent more than a decade as the Toronto Star’s National Security reporter, traveling around the world, from the streets of Mogadishu, and Sanaa, to the mountains of Waziristan, through the corridors of power and making more than two dozen trips to the world’s most famous jail in Guantanamo Bay. Shephard has won Canada’s top journalism’s prizes – a three-time recipient of the National Newspaper Award and part of a team that received the Governor General’s Michener Award for Public Service Journalism.She is the author of Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr (2008) and Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey Zone (2011) and is widely published elsewhere including The New Yorker, Foreign Policy Magazine, The Guardian and The New Republic.Shephard has collaborated on various documentaries including her role an associate producer on the Oscar-nominated and Peabody Award winning documentary Under Fire: Journalists in Combat and produced the National Film Board’s documentary Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd, which premiered at Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in November 2014, along with other international festivals. Shephard is on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma and speaks often on issues of national security and civil rights. She is the 2015/2016 recipient of the Atkinson Fellowship and will spend a year investigating the Islamic State and “Generation 9/11.”  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

STORY SHARE: The Story Of A Humanitarian Doctor This podcast tells a story about a woman who experienced the Rwandan genocide. This story comes from Dr. James Orbinski. Dr. James Orbinski was a Humanitarian Doctor working in Rwanda during the genocide. “Hope not only meets despair in equal measure, it drowns it.” – Dr. Maskalyk CHECK OUT: 1.) The Interview Girl FOUNDATION: http://InterviewGirl.org/ 2.) Interview Girl On YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/MsToriStory 3.) Victoria's New BOOK: http://www.amazon.com/Because-Medicine-Ran-Out-InterviewGirl-com/dp/0692297138/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438041469&sr=1-1&keywords=because+the+medicine+ran+out 4.) DOCUMENTARY Film About WWII Coming Soon: http://chasingtime.us/ The Interview Girl Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving others and making a difference in this world by eliminating miseries that others experience. Stories, advice, interviews, and content are shared for the purpose of helping others (eliminating misery). Every project completed helps a different cause. People throughout the world experience various miseries and each product produced at the Interview Girl Foundation aids someone who is experiencing misery. The Interview Girl Foundation is a DO-GOOD organization that uses STORIES to achieve SOCIAL GOOD. http://InterviewGirl.org/

  An Imperfect Offering is a searing personal memoir that is also an urgent call to confront suffering in all its many forms, from one of the greatest living humanitarian activists.  Having seen things we hope never to see, confronted suffering and evil we hope never to encounter, and faced deep personal torment, James Orbinski, […] The post James Orbinski – An Imperfect Offering appeared first on THIRTEEN Forum.

Our second installment of The Grandest Challenge Symposium features James Orbinski, author of An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century. Following Dr. Orbinski's lecture he is joined in conversation by moderator Gillian Findlay.

Our second installment of The Grandest Challenge Symposium features James Orbinski, author of An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century. Following Dr. Orbinski's lecture he is joined in conversation by moderator Gillian Findlay.

Dr. James Orbinski has witnessed some of the most horrific events of our time, from famine to civil war and to genocide in Rwanda. In a new memoir, he recounts those experiences and how they changed him. It's called "An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century". As president of "Doctors Without Borders, he accepted the Nobel Prize on behalf of the humanitarian group. (Originally aired October 2008)

Dr. James Orbinski has witnessed some of the most horrific events of our time, from famine to civil war and to genocide in Rwanda. In a new memoir, he recounts those experiences and how they changed him. It's called "An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century". As president of "Doctors Without Borders, he accepted the Nobel Prize on behalf of the humanitarian group. (Originally aired October 2008)