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Pharmacists ensure our teams have the essential medications they need to provide vital medical care.

Often coordinating operations from the country capital, they maintain high standards – whether it be training local staff or ensuring practices comply with national regulations. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) pharmacists are meticulous and savvy planners, ensuring medications are stocked, transported and distributed appropriately, whether as part of an ongoing programme or in response to a sudden disease outbreak.

Read the blog posts below to find out more about life as an MSF pharmacist, or click here to find out more about applying to join the team.

Ola Barakat - MSF pharmacist
Ola Barakat is an MSF pharmacist
Ola Barakat
Pharmacist
“Nothing will stand in my way”: Pharmacist, student and pregnant in a pandemic
MSF pharmacist Ola Barakat shares her determination to follow her own path and to go where her skills are needed most.
01 Apr 2021 / 5 minute read
Lamya Abdi
Lamya Abdi
Pharmacist
"I’m an MSF pharmacist and together, we save lives!"
A young boy is in a critical condition. He'll need life-saving medication, possibly for months. But in this remote location, securing medicines is no easy matter. Lamya blogs from South Sudan...
26 May 2020 / 4 minute read
Nathalia Peixoto de Oliveira
Pharmacist
Pakistan: First time in the field
Nathalia is in Pakistan, where she and the rest of the pharmacy team work to ensure that all our medics have the right drugs available to give patients the best possible care. Today she visits one of the clinics for the first time, and sees the impact of the work first hand...
18 Dec 2017 / 4 minute read
Nathalia Peixoto de Oliveira
Pharmacist
Pakistan outside the field
Nathalia is in Pakistan, where MSF / Doctors Without Borders projects are helping to meet health care needs in rural areas and urban slums. In her first post she showcases the diversity of country, as her Pakistani colleagues introduce her to the vibrancy of Islamabad, the capital city...
14 Dec 2017 / 5 minute read
Kimberly Cremers
Pharmacist
A pharmacist in Uganda: Cold Chain
"Before MSF I would have said a cold chain was 'the process of keeping your beer cold while tailgating at an Ohio State football game'."
21 Jun 2017 / 4 minute read
Kimberly Cremers
Pharmacist
A pharmacist in Uganda: My job
Our medical teams can only do the work they do because they have the medicines they need. It's Kim's job to make sure they get them. Here she blogs about getting down to work in her new assignment in Uganda...
05 Jun 2017 / 3 minute read
Kimberly Cremers
Pharmacist
A pharmacist in Uganda: "Kampala here I come!"
Pharmacist Kim touches down in Uganda, and shares her first impressions of the place that will be her home for the next 12 months...
17 May 2017 / 3 minute read
Kimberly Cremers
Pharmacist
A pharmacist returns to MSF: 'I'm back!'
After taking a break from MSF assignments, Kim decides its time to return to the field. But what will it be like this time? She blogs about what it takes to get ready to spend 12 months in a new country...
10 May 2017 / 4 minute read
Irene Breitschopf
Pharmacist
CAR: The medicine woman
Riding, traveling, cycling: sporty Austrian pharmacist Irene Breitschopf has many hobbies. So it’s no surprise that she always brings a yoga mat with her wherever she goes. In her first blog post, written during her first assignment with MSF in Central African Republic (CAR), she overcomes culture shock and steps into her role as pharmacy manager.
05 Apr 2017 / 4 minute read
Mirabelle Adamu-Zeh
Pharmacist
Farewell to Yida Refugee Camp, Farewell to the Nuba Mountains
As I prepare my final report, I can’t help thinking how fast nine months have gone by in Yida.
14 Nov 2016 / 3 minute read
Mirabelle Adamu-Zeh
Pharmacist
New Mountain Pharmacy
Within the span of three months, I saw the transformation of an empty ward into a pharmacy ready to receive my 1,850 parcels from the International Order (IO).
30 May 2016 / 2 minute read
Mirabelle Adamu-Zeh
Pharmacist
Facing My Fear
Opening the New Mountain project has kept everyone busy for the past few months in terms of movement, exchanging and training staff, setting up new primary health care units (PHCUs), supplying medi
30 May 2016 / 4 minute read
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