Anthropology applied to humanitarian situations: the relationship with the field, methodological challenges and ethical issues.
Jean-François Veran holds a PhD in Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études des Sciences Sociales (France) and is an associate professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). He joined Doctors Without Borders in 2010 as an anthropology consultant, where he develops an anthropology in a "humanitarian situation" that he applies in the field to issues of migration, management of epidemic crises, sexual and reproductive health and urban violence. His latest book is Médecins Sans Frontières and Humanitarian Situations, An Anthropological Exploration/Médecins Sans Frontières and Humanitarian Situations An Anthropological Exploration (Routledge, London, 2020).