Javid Abdelmoneim

Javid Abdelmoneim

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BiographyJavid Abdelmoneim (born c. 1979) is a British-born physician. He is the International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (elected 26 June 2025), and former television presenter. He works with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF / Doctors without Borders) which has seen him respond to crises in Iraq (2009), Haiti (2010), South Sudan (2014), Sierra Leone (2014), Syria (2017–2018) and also aboard the Aquarius (2016), a search and rescue ship run in partnership between MSF and SOS Mediteranée. Most recently, Abdelmoneim served as a Member of the Board of Trustees (2015–2021) and was also elected the youngest serving president and chair of the Board (2017–2021) for MSF UK.

During his time in Sierra Leone in 2014, he documented his experiences during the West Africa Ebola epidemic for the BAFTA, Emmy & Grierson, shortlisted Panorama film Ebola Frontline. A film that was broadcast in more than 20 countries globally.

Alongside active service with the NHS and MSF, Abdelmoneim fronted a number of critically acclaimed science and wellbeing programmes for the BBC, Channel 4, HBO and the Al Jazeera network. His filmography includes, amongst others; Foreign Press Association Award, Best Science Story of the Year Winner Al Jazeera medical series The Cure for his episode Operation Gaza (2016); Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards shortlisted HBO documentary Ebola, The Doctors Story (2017); BAFTA shortlisted BBC Two documentary series No More Boys and Girls (2018) and Royal Television Society (RTS) Scotland Award nominated Channel 4 mini-series How to Stay Well (2018).

Abdelmoneim is also an advocate for humanitarianism through the right to health through his public speaking and writing engagements including the BBC News (2014), The Independent (2014), TEDx (2015), The Hippocratic Post (2017), and DNDi's 15th Anniversary Gala Dinner (2018).

Abdelmoneim was awarded the Ebola Medal for Service in West Africa, but subsequently returned the medal in protest against the hostile environment in healthcare towards migrants in the UK.

In August 2021, Abdelmoneim was appointed a trustee of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.

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