Clare Shortall

Health and Nutrition adviser with a specialist interest in Refugee Health. Medical doctor with a background in psychology and clinical experience in General Medicine, Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Psychiatry and further training in Paediatrics and Child Health. Humanitarian experience includes Women’s and Children’s Health Service Coordinator and Refugee Health Lead for Doctors of the World UK, part of the Médecins du Monde (MdM) network which included being a medical referent for the MdM Network’s exploratory missions to Greece and Turkey and MHPSS for caregivers project in Croatia. Technical Unit Coordinator in Turkey for Humanity & Inclusion (HI) (formally Handicap International), Health Coordinator for Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) in Iraq and Lebanon and Health and Nutrition Adviser for PUI and Action Contre La Faim (ACF) covering a range of countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Venezuela and Ukraine. Other overseas experience includes voluntary work in Sudan, Rwanda, Calais and Greece. Academic profile includes Public Health, Paediatrics and Child Health, Tropical Medicines and the Care of Catastrophes with strong quantitative and qualitative research skills. Committed to humanitarian principles and to working as part of a team with experience providing technical input to mission strategies; needs assessments; proposal design; reporting and implementation of health and MHPSS programmes. Areas covered include direct technical supervision; health systems strengthening; mHealth; capacity building and training; medical procurement; monitoring and evaluation and ensuring the quality of healthcare interventions.