Sana Bég
Executive Director, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres Canada
Humanitarian Aid, Conflict, Disasters, Global Emergencies, Wars, Canadian Foreign Policy, Sexual And Gender-Based Violence, Epidemics, Pandemics, Global Health, Public Health, Antimicrobial Resistance, Climate Change, Barriers To Accessing Essential Aid, Migrants, Refugees, Safe Abortion, Vaccinations, Sudan, Gaza, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Chad, Haiti, Afghanistan, Journalism, Underreported Crises
Media
Canada’s next government must stand up for humanity
Canada’s call for a ceasefire in Gaza isn’t enough
Biography
Sana Bég is the Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins sans frontières Canada (MSF). She was the Director of Communications with MSF in South Asia for six years and played a significant role in building new systems and models to better enable their humanitarian work. She has been part of global MSF teams on equity, diversity and inclusion; data protection; misinformation and disinformation; and ethical use of imagery. She has worked directly with medical project teams in South Sudan as communications manager, and also as communicators advisor for Yemen, Syria and Iraq.
Prior to MSF, Bég’s career in journalism included positions such as senior producer for Al Jazeera America in New York and as reporter and producer with an affiliation of National Public Radio. She has taught journalism to students pursuing their master’s degree in Kashmir and is active in the Society of Professional Journalists.
Bég brings strong insight and grounded reflections in her public speaking, including her perspective on how the humanitarian sector must take critical steps to evolve and adapt. As a new thought-leader in Canada, she is ready to share stories and insight about the multi-layered crises of today, including Gaza, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Afghanistan and the situation of Rohingya people in Bangladesh and Myanmar, among others.