Rony Brauman (born June 19, 1950, in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
) is a French
physician
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...
specializing in
tropical disease
Tropical diseases are diseases that are prevalent in or unique to tropical and subtropical regions. The diseases are less prevalent in temperate climates, due in part to the occurrence of a cold season, which controls the insect population by for ...
s.
He was one of the early members of ''
Médecins sans frontières
(MSF; pronounced ), also known as Doctors Without Borders, is a humanitarian medical non-governmental organisation (NGO) or charity of French origin known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries affected by endemic diseases. ...
'' (Doctors without Borders), and was its president from 1982 to 1994. As president, Brauman oversaw the financial and operational expansion of the movement, including the establishment of new operational centers and chapters around the world.
He was a professor at the ''
Institut d'études politiques de Paris
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, mottoeng = Roots of the Future
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, founder = Émile Boutmy
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'' (''Sciences po'') from 1994 to 1997 and is now scientific advisor in the
school of international affairs of ''Sciences po''.
With
Israeli director
Eyal Sivan
Eyal Sivan ( he, אייל סיון) is an Israeli documentary filmmaker, theoretician and scholar based in Paris, France.
Early life
Eyal Sivan is a Filmmaker, Writer and theoretician born in 1964 in Haifa, Israel; raised in Jerusalem; and b ...
, his cousin, he co-directed a
documentary (1999) on the trial of
Adolf Eichmann (1961) based on
Hannah Arendt's 1963 book ''
Eichmann in Jerusalem
''Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil'' is a 1963 book by political thinker Hannah Arendt. Arendt, a Jew who fled Germany during Adolf Hitler's rise to power, reported on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers ...
''.
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1950 births
Living people
French tropical physicians
French humanitarians
20th-century French Jews
Physicians from Jerusalem
20th-century French physicians
21st-century French physicians
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