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Dr Lisa Searle is a general practitioner from Tasmania who has built a career with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), completing 11 assignments since 2010.

Climate change has disastrous health impacts. As a medical humanitarian organisation, we are already seeing these impacts on the people we treat in over 70 countries around the world.

Beset by the effects of climate change, the island nation of Kiribati now faces increasing child malnutrition and a shortage of specialists to treat them. Jacqui Thornton reports.

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is providing paediatric support on Kiribati as the remote Central Pacific nation finds itself without any specialist paediatricians, and one of the highest mortality rates in children under five globally.

Médecins Sans Frontières/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF) officially launched medical activities in the equatorial Pacific island nation of Kiribati in October 2022. Our team there, including a paediatrician, midwife and general practitioner, support the Ministry of Health and Medical Services to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes.

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has started providing medical humanitarian assistance in Kiribati, as climate change exacerbates health risks in the country.