Professor Bertrand Taithe
Co-Investigator
Professor Bertrand Taithe
Co-Investigator
Bertrand is a Co-Investigator on the project. Bertrand is a founding member of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute and has been its executive director since 2009.
His research interests are primarily on humanitarianism and humanitarian aid practices. He has published on the history of humanitarian medicine, the history of humanitarian and missionary aid and aid in conflicts. He has worked with MSF-CRASH and MSF Switzerland on issues of risk and attacks on healthcare - his publications in this domain include:
2016, ‘Danger, Risk, Security and Protection: Concepts at the Heart of the History of Humanitarian Aid’, in Fabrice Weissman & Michael Neuman eds, Saving Lives and Staying Alive, Hurst, 2016, 37-53.
2016. Read, Róisín, Bertrand Taithe, and Roger Mac Ginty. "Data hubris? Humanitarian information systems and the mirage of technology." Third World Quarterly (2016): 1-18.
2014 Caroline Abu Sa’Da, Françoise Duroch, Prof Bertrand Taithe, ‘Des attaques sur la mission médicale : aperçus d’une réalité polymorphe, le cas de Médecins Sans Frontières’, Revue Internationale de la Croix Rouge, International Review of the Red Cross, 95, 890 :309-330.