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Dr. Joanne Liu is the\\xa0International President of M\\xe9decins Sans Fronti\\xe8res (MSF), otherwise known as Doctors without Borders. She is a Canadian Pediatrician by training and has been with MSF for almost her entire career. She became the international head of MSF in 2013.

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We spoke not long after she visited MSF\'s operations in a stretch of land in Bangladesh called Cox\'s Bazar. This is where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled from neighboring Myanmar in recent months and it is the site of one of the world\'s most urgent global humanitarian emergencies. Dr. Liu discusses the conditions there--and the kind of unique medical needs that stem from having such a massive population displacement in such a short period of time.\\xa0

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We also discuss MSF\'s history--including how it gained a reputation as one of the more fearless global humanitarian organizations. And we also discuss some of the current big challenges facing MSF, including a seeming increase in the number of attacks on humanitarian and health facilities around the world.\\xa0

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Dr. Liu tells a few very powerful stories, including a recent visit to a detention center for African migrants in Libya a place she calls "the most inhuman incarnation of men\'s cruelty"\\xa0\\xa0

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We also discuss in detail a tragedy that befell MSF in October 2015 when US fighter jets bombed an MSF hospital in\\xa0Afghanistan, killing many of her colleagues.\\xa0

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This episode shifts between wonky explanations of issues in world affairs, and her own very personal experience with those issues and I just want to thank Dr. Liu and the people at MSF for making this episode so powerful.\\xa0

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