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Anna Betts in New York

NYU canceled talk on USAID cuts for being ‘anti-governmental’, doctor says

a doctor stands as she helps a patient sitting down
A Doctors Without Borders charity member assists a Palestinian woman at a MSF tent clinic in Susya village, in the south of the occupied West Bank, on 17 July 2024. Photograph: Mosab Shawer/AFP/Getty Images

The former international head of Doctors Without Borders says she was left “stunned” after New York University canceled her presentation because some of her slides discussing cuts at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) could be viewed as “anti-governmental”.

Dr Joanne Liu, a pediatric emergency physician at Sainte-Justine hospital and a professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who also served as the former international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), told CTV News last week that she was scheduled on 19 March to give a presentation at her alma mater on challenges in humanitarian crises.

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