October 31, 2016
Hichem DeMortier to present Oz to Oz Fulbright seminar Nov. 1
Hichem DeMortier, director of Strategy and Corporate Services at the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, will present "Public Health challenges during disaster situations" at 2 p.m. Nov. 1 in 2002 Throckmorton Hall.
Before working in Australia, DeMortier worked with Medecins Sans Frontieres, where he coordinated and evaluated development and emergency projects in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. DeMortier then returned to France as deputy director of a large social enterprise.
In 2009, he moved to Australia and continued his nonprofit journey in structures supporting Indigenous health and employment, before joining the Global and Tropical Health division of Menzies School of Health Research.