CLAIRE BERTSCHINGER (1953-)

Claire Bertschinger director of Tropical Nursing Studies at the Londond School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Of dual British and Swiss nationality, she worked in the beginning of her career as a nurse with the International Committee of the Red Cross at their centre in Mekelle, Ethiopia. While there, she gave an interview to the BBC’s Michael Buerk which inspired the British musician Bob Geldof to form the charity supergroup “Band Aid”and organize the subsequent “Live Aid” benefit concert for famine victims in Ethiopia.

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