Dr Louisa Baxter

Louisa is a medical and public health doctor and a senior international and domestic humanitarian manager. She has over thirteen years of experience in delivering humanitarian aid at strategic, technical, and operational levels, 19 years of experience as an internal medicine doctor in the National Health Service, and 11 years of experience within UK public health. Louisa has a breadth of experience in the not-for-profit sector in the UK and globally, working at senior levels for two of the world’s largest International Non-Government Organisations and have also held positions with the UK government and with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR). Much of her work has been focused on the provision of public health care to refugees, internally displaced people, people of concern, and people on the move and this has included setting up Mediterranean Search and Rescue programs, programs during the European refugee response, and programs across the Middle East and sub- Saharan Africa.