HERR LECTURE SERIES: Doctors Without Borders - Stories of Courage & Compassion from Gaza

HERR LECTURE SERIES: Doctors Without Borders - Stories of Courage & Compassion from Gaza

This is the first Herr Lecture Series gathering for the 2025-2026 season.
Featuring Casey Eberl, a Canadian nurse who recently returned from Gaza after two assignments with Doctors Without Borders.

Casey will give her firsthand account of the challenges medical teams face during mass casualty incidents with limited resources. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides emergency medical humanitarian care to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare.

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Casey has completed two medical assignments with Doctors Without Borders /Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Gaza, bringing critical pediatric care to children at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. She completed two MSF missions: a six-week deployment in Fall 2024 and a two-month follow-up mission in Spring 2025. While serving, she lived under the constant threat of airstrikes, often sheltering alongside MSF colleagues, while local staff and patients endured even greater risks. Through it all, she witnessed incredible resilience from both the children and the Palestinian health workers she supported. One of the most powerful aspects of her work, she says, was the opportunity to bear witness: standing in solidarity, listening, and simply being present.

Since returning to Canada, Casey has spoken openly about the emotional toll of her missions—survivor’s guilt, deep concern for colleagues still in Gaza, and a renewed perspective on resilience and humanity.

She continues to share her story in hopes of raising awareness and inspiring action around the ongoing humanitarian crisis.