In this second installment on humanitarian communications, Lee and Lilie are joined by Divya Pushkarna, the Disinformation Advisor to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Divya is a digital communications professional with more than 10 years of experience of managing digital operations in humanitarian and media sector, extensively working on assessment and management of harmful digital incidents with a focus on mis/disinformation and its impact on MSF’s humanitarian work in more than 80 countries. Prior to MSF, Divya worked as a digital business journalist with a leading media publication in India.

Lee Edwards researches strategic and humanitarian communication. Her recent article on visibility in promotional context is available open access.

Lillie Chouliaraki has researched humanitarian communication for two decades. Her publications include the books The Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism (Polity, 2013), and the edited volume The Handbook of Humanitarian Communication (Routledge, 2021).