There is an elephant in the room in the humanitarian health sector. While we have mastered many skills in responding to acute humanitarian health needs, how environmentally sustainable are our efforts in the long term?

For the past 18 years GUILHERME COELHO has worked as a healthcare architect, collaborating on projects with MSF, the International Committee of the Red Cross and recently with the Technical University of Braunschweig.

Roger Morton is a logistician whose work for MSF in Iraq inspired him to design and develop a personal decontamination kit.

This position paper is a result of a break-out session that took place at the MSF SCIENTIFIC DAYS in London in May 2018.

The SIU is pleased to welcome Roger Morton and his Protection Against Chemical Exposure (PeACE) Kit project on board. Initially funded by the MSF Sapling Nursery Fund in the UK, the SIU will now support Roger is pushing the kit towards production

At the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit, we endeavour to stay ahead of the curve and look at how new technologies could be implemented in MSF contexts. As part of this, the SIU is publishing a series of guest blogs in which experts in a particular technology can write about their areas of expertise in relation to MSF.