Providing independent, impartial medical humanitarian assistance to the people who need it most.

Established over 50 years ago, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) cares for people affected by conflict, disease outbreaks, natural and human-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.

• 70+ : Countries and territories are home to our medical humanitarian projects medics
• 16,272,300 : Medical consultations were conducted by our humanitarian teams hospital
• 1,214,100 : Patients admitted to MSF hospitals or clinics around the world

• 87% : Programs that bring emergency medical care directly to the people who need it funds
• 12%> : Fundraising that supports our medical humanitarian work scope
• 1%> : Management and general expenses to cover administration

Learn more about what we do at: Doctors Without Borders

MSF is committed to providing all our employees with equal access to learning and development opportunities

MSF is a global workforce of over 60,000 individuals – the majority of whom are hired locally from the 70+ countries we work in. In addition to medical staff (doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other positions), MSF also hires logisticians, human resource and finance professionals, project managers, IT specialists and others who play critical roles in supporting our medical activities and ensuring the safety of our teams and patients.

Given the incredible diversity of our employees and their working environments, MSF takes an equally diversified approach to meeting their professional development needs. This includes:

• supporting higher education and certification pursuits
• creating and delivering asynchronous and synchronous trainings for virtual and in-person audiences
• hosting webinars and conversation cafés
• maximizing “on-the-job” learning opportunities
• building a culture of peer-to-peer learning and networking

To ensure MSF managers around the world are in a position to support their team’s development, MSF’s management program - the Ways of Working (WoW) - introduce management theories and practices, promote peer-to-peer learning and individual reflection and engage participants in activities designed to reflect the reality of MSF’s working environments.

The WoW program has steadily evolved over the past 15 years and is now scaling both in terms of reaching an increased number of MSF managers and reinforcing and expanding content. Since 2019, courses have been delivered to over 1,500 managers worldwide. A Monitoring and Evaluation Unit follows the progress and impact of the WoW programs (see results here – Annual Report), ensuring this learning unit – complemented by a pool of WoW facilitators – continues to self-reflect and to deliver engaging and successful programs.

MSF is truly a learning organization and welcomes collaborations with external partners. We firmly believe we are all humanitarians committed to improving the health and wellbeing of patients and staff everywhere.