Joost Binnerts (MD) graduated as a general doctor in 2016 at the VU University in Amsterdam. After completing residencies in surgery and intensive care, he worked as a researcher in the Haydom Lutheran Hospital in Tanzania in 2018. Subsequently he finished his specialization as a doctor in Global Health and Tropical Medicine at Shirati KMT Hospital, where he works to this day. Together with Jovine Okoth he set up the project ‘Building Bridges for Broken Bones’, which attempts to test a collaboration between the local hospital and the district’s traditional bonesetters, for the benefit of fracture patients.