Following on from a successful nursing career in the UK, Claire's first post abroad was as a medic for the Scientific Exploration Society in Panama Papua New Guinea and Sulawesi. She went on to accumulate vast experience from many years working in emergency disaster relief, primarily in war zones, with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). She has worked in over a dozen countries including Afghanistan, Kenya, Lebanon, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Liberia.

Prior to joining the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Claire worked as training officer in the Health Division of ICRC Geneva.

She was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal from the Red Cross in recognition of her work in conflict situations, the BISH medal from the Scientific Exploration Society, gained a Masters in Medical Anthropology, and has published her biography "Moving Mountains" (Transworld, 2005) to critical acclaim.

She has subsequently received Woman of the Year, Window to the World award and the Human Rights and Nursing Award. For her contribution to Nursing and Education she has recived an Honorary Doctorate from both Brunel and De Montfort Universities.

Claire is the Course Director for the Diploma in Tropical Nursing and remains passionately committed to issues in the developing world. She is an ambassador for A-CET (African Children's Educational Trust) travelling world-wide raising awareness and funds for the charity. She is also a regular voluntary worker here in the UK (Age Concern). She gives motivational talks based on her life experiences with the aim of inspiring people to create value and make a difference to our planet.

One of the most enduring images of the Ethiopian famine that shocked the world in 1984 was that of the young International Red Cross nurse who, surrounded by thousands of starving people and with limited supplies, had the terrible task of choosing which children to feed, knowing that those she turned away might not last the night.

‘In her was vested the power of life and death,’
Bob Geldof

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