Dr David Noguera
director
medical
Medicins Sans Frontieres
Switzerland
Biography
Dr David Noguera worked as a general practitioner in Girona, before going to the field with MSF for the first time in 2001 as part of a mission caring for migrant populations in the Canary Islands. Since then David's work with MSF has taken him to Somalia, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Angola, Zambia, India, Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Tunisia, Libya, Ethiopia and South Sudan. David joined the Emergency Unit in 2006, first as an emergency coordinator and then as head of the unit. He has extensive experience in emergencies, and has worked in a variety of contexts, from nutritional crises to epidemic outbreaks. Founder of ReAcció Humanità ria, an organisation that seeks to increase social knowledge on humanitarian crises and NGO's response, he has worked for institutions like the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) and organisations such as the Red Cross. He has been the president of MSF Spain since October 2016.
Research Interest
He has extensive experience in emergencies, and has worked in a variety of contexts, from nutritional crises to epidemic outbreaks
