Dr Bernard Kouchner, founder of international Nobel Prize-winning aid organisation Médecins sans Frontières delivered a lecture on 'Doctors without Borders to Patients without Borders' at the 19th Annual International Health Lecture at RCSI.

Dr Kouchner has held a number of ministerial positions in the French government, including French Minister for Health and Minister for Humanitarian Affairs. As a gastroenterologist in Paris, he has written many books, and has revolutionised humanitarianism throughout the world.

In 1970, he co-founded Médecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), which was awarded the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, and then Médecins du Monde (Medicines of the World) the next decade.