Margaret Bourdeaux Biography

Margaret Ellis Bourdeaux's journey in global health began when she took a year of leave from Yale Medical School to work in refugee camps during the Kosovo War in 1999. She returned on her own after the war to trace families she had befriended in the camps and find out what had happened to them. Living in villages of Kosovo's countryside she documented how these families struggled to care for their children find health services and make a living in a society decimated by genocide and ethnic conflict. This experience impressed upon her the stark truth that war kills people by stripping them of their personal community and national resources and institutions. Far more people died in Kosovo from the depleted health systems and institutions than from wounds sustained during the armed conflict. Later experiences in Haiti Afghanistan Libya Sierra Leon Madagascar and Liberia revealed a similar pattern: armed conflict would decimate indigenous health institutions that never recovered leaving people helpless when later crises -- earthquakes epidemics renewed conflict -- invariably struck. Strong resilient health systems are the key to making war disasters and epidemics less deadly.

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