How did you get into humanitarian work?
Previously I had lived in the outback of Australia with my family, and when we moved to Adelaide I wasn't quite sure how to reintegrate back into city life. So, I decided to do a paper at Flinders University in International Disaster Nursing, which started me on my path to humanitarian work.
When I returned to New Zealand, I really wanted to do some humanitarian work, so I applied to the Red Cross and did six assignments with them as a nurse educator, a midwife and a medical logistician.
How did living in a remote indigenous community prepare you for working with MSF?
Living in a remote area teaches you to be resourceful and resilient. You don't pick up your family and move to the outback for five years unless you're a bit mentally and physically tough, so this prepared me for working in low resource regions.