Peter Skelton is a physiotherapist and humanitarian coordinator with 15 years of international emergency rehabilitation experience. He is delivering an online talk about this experience as he is currently in Lebanon!

Pete Skelton is Rehabilitation in Emergencies focal point with the World Health Organisation. He previously worked as rehabilitation lead of the UK Government’s Emergency Medical Team and as a Humanitarian Advisor for a number of different international organisations.

Pete has been working in emergencies since 2010. He has led or coordinated responses to earthquakes, cyclones, outbreaks and a range of conflicts including in Ukraine, Armenia, Iraq, Libya and Gaza.

Pete is the lead author of a number of clinical and operational guidelines on rehabilitation in emergencies, including the WHO Policy Brief Strengthening Rehabilitation in Health Emergencies, the clinical handbook “Early Rehabilitation in Conflict and Disasters”, the World Physiotherapy Report “The Role of Physiotherapists in Disasters Management”, and the WHO Publication Emergency Medical Teams: Minimum Technical Standards and Recommendations for Rehabilitation.” He is also a trained Emergency Medical Team Coordinator, team mentor and researcher.

Before working in the humanitarian sector, he split his time between work in the National Health Service as a physiotherapist in the UK and health projects in West Arica and India.