/desautels/taxonomy/term/1268/all en /desautels/channels/news/43rd-desautels-management-achievement-awards-celebrates-industry-disruptors-346198 <p>On Friday, February 3, the Desautels Faculty of Management hosted the 43rd edition of the Desautels Management Achievement Awards, a student-run initiative which brings the global Desautels community together to celebrate the achievements of industry leaders who have demonstrated a career of great achievement and commitment of responsible business.</p> Fri, 17 Feb 2023 17:25:25 +0000 angela.l.williams@mcgill.ca 88163 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/one-last-look-2014-mcgill%E2%80%99s-year-review-241199 <p>From naming Michael A. Meighen as the University’s new Chancellor in January to having two students earning Rhodes Scholarships in December, 2014 was yet another eventful year for ���ϲʿ������. As we head into the final weeks of 2014, the Reporter looks back on the year that was, highlighting some of the key happenings over the past 12 months in words and pictures.</p> Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:21:04 +0000 veronique.beaulieu-fowler@mcgill.ca 63763 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/medecins-sans-frontieres-brought-business-innovations-charitable-giving-343522 <p>Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) introduced a new business model for charitable giving. “We were the first ones to create the regular donation model," said <strong>Dr. Joanne Liu </strong>(MDCM'91, IMHL'14, DSc'16), an emergency physician, a professor at the School of Population and Global Health at ���ϲʿ������, and the 13th President of MSF (2013-2019). “One of our first fundraising campaigns was 1 euro per day,” Liu said in an interview with Prof. <a href="/desautels/karl-moore">Karl Moore</a> for Forbes.com.</p> Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:14:49 +0000 angela.l.williams@mcgill.ca 87884 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/imhl-alumna-suggests-steps-limit-covid-19-impact-321534 <p>As the former international president of Médecins Sans Frontières, <strong>Joanne Liu</strong> (MDCM'91, IMHL'14, DSc'16) is familiar with the full force of epidemics. In this article in <i>The Globe and Mail</i>, Liu proposes immediate actions that Canada can take to limit the impact of COVID-19.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-ive-fought-epidemics-around-the-world-now-its-canada-that-must/" target="_blank">Read more</a></p> Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:37:41 +0000 angela.l.williams@mcgill.ca 75723 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/walk-fame-star-imhl-alumna-288243 <p>Health advocate <strong>Dr. Joanne Liu</strong> (MDCM’91, IMHL’14, DSc’16) is among the 10 new inductees to the Walk of Fame, which honors Canadians who have excelled on the national and international levels.</p> <p>As International President of Médecins sans frontières (Doctors Without Borders) Dr. Joanne Liu has worked with Malian refugees in Mauritania, helped people affected by the earthquake in Haiti and the tsunami in Indonesia, and tended to war-wounded patients in Syria.</p> Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:42:47 +0000 julie.lapalme@mcgill.ca 70901 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/doctors-without-borders-chief-joanne-liu-determined-hold-world-elite-accountable-261058 <p><strong>Joanne Liu</strong> does not have much time to sit around watching Netflix, but on vacation recently, she caught a series that has captured her imagination:Homeland, the acclaimed political thriller about the fevered plots of U.S. spies and their terrorist enemies. The show stresses the intelligence community’s fallible humanity, but also its brutal comfort with collateral damage. Watching it, Dr. Liu says, “You start thinking, ‘How could Kunduz be a mistake?’”</p> Mon, 30 May 2016 15:39:14 +0000 thao.nguyen3@mail.mcgill.ca 66113 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/365-days-natures-10-241208 <p>Ten people who mattered this year.</p> <p><br /> ... Ones to Watch in 2015<br /> <strong>Joanne Liu</strong>, International president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)<br /> MSF has shone in the global response to the Ebola epidemic, and Liu will be a big player in next year's efforts to end it.<br /> <br /> Read full article: <a href="http://clicks.skem1.com/trkr/?c=28371&g=1419&p=cbb2f8d195811b7b38d35016d12440fe&u=ef01907cc5e52d12e838c5162bdc52af&q=&t=1">Nature</a>, December 17, 2014</p> Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:31:51 +0000 veronique.beaulieu-fowler@mcgill.ca 63772 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/vacations-out-canadian-chief-aid-group-doctors-without-borders-239714 <p><span>Vacations are a time for relaxing at the cottage or sunning on a beach – unless you’re <strong>Joanne Liu</strong>, the Canadian physician who is the loudest and most insistent voice in the global rally to contain the Ebola epidemic.</span></p> <p><span>... <span>“She wants to save the world,” said her good friend Conrad Sauvé, the Red Cross Canada CEO who studied with her at <strong>���ϲʿ������ for a master’s degree in health leadership</strong>.</span></span></p> Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:57:38 +0000 joy.wang@mail.mcgill.ca 63501 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/joanne-liu-bertrand-cesvet-receive-honorary-degrees-263473 <p>Two inspirational ���ϲʿ������ alumni – Bertrand Cesvet, of the award-winning creative agency Sid Lee, and Joanne Liu, of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders – will receive honorary doctorate degrees at the university’s fall convocation ceremonies.</p> <p>These two alumni also hail from the Desautels Faculty of Management: <strong>Dr. Joanne Liu </strong>(IMHL’14) pursued her International Masters for Health Leadership while <strong><a href="/desautels/alumni/notable-alumni/bertrand-cesvet">Bertrand Cesvet</a></strong> (MBA'90) pursued his MBA.</p> Fri, 14 Oct 2016 20:41:52 +0000 julie.lapalme@mcgill.ca 66635 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/msf-president-dr-joanne-liu-ebola-syria-and-kunduz-257664 <p>Not so long ago, <strong>Joanne Liu</strong> was a Montreal doctor at Sainte-Justine Hospital.</p> <p>Now, the Quebec City native and ���ϲʿ������ graduate is the international president of Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French name, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).</p> <p>Read full article: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/msf-president-2015-humanitarian-crises-1.3392667">CBC News</a>, January 7, 2016</p> Fri, 08 Jan 2016 19:43:02 +0000 thao.nguyen3@mail.mcgill.ca 65446 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/physician-mission-257428 <p><strong>Joanne Liu</strong> has treated patients in the most dangerous parts of the globe as a Médecins Sans Frontières doctor. Now, as MSF’s international president, she is holding the world’s leaders to account for the way they handle medical crises.</p> <p>The body of a six-year-old Syrian refugee is on the cover of every newspaper arrayed in the lobby of the Montreal restaurant where Dr. Joanne Liu, international president of Médecins Sans Frontières, has just arrived.</p> Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:04:19 +0000 arifa.nitol@mail.mcgill.ca 65425 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/pediatre-sans-limites-236948 <p><span>Cette semaine, je n'ai pas mangé avec Joanne Liu. Nous avons simplement pris un café sur Notre-Dame Ouest, non loin du marché Atwater.</span></p> Wed, 04 Jun 2014 18:43:16 +0000 joy.wang@mail.mcgill.ca 62806 at /desautels