An Ebola outbreak has gripped parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to the latest figures from the World Health Organization there have been 45 reported cases, 14 of which have been confirmed as Ebola. Of these 45...
Dr. Tom Frieden lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 to 2017. He now has a new role: President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies. And in this role he...
About two weeks ago, an internal memo leaked from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It informed personnel that the center was anticipating a loss of approximately 80% of its funding for international outbreak prevention work. Yesterday, the...
My podcast guest Jeremy Konyndyk recently left his post as the top US global humanitarian relief official and has many stories to tell and lessons to share. Jeremy lead the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance at USAID during much of...
New research on the 2014 ebola outbreak reveals important new details about how ebola spread so quickly across Western Africa–and what can be done to stop the next outbreak before it becomes a full blown pandemic. The research, published in...
Ed note. This post was originally published in February 2015, when the WHO declared that the ebola outbreak in West Africa had largely been contained. Today, January 13, 2016, the World Health Organization declared the official end of the outbreak,...
A fifteen-year-old boy named Nathan Groote, died of Ebola in Liberia today. It’s the first Ebola death in the country since July. In addition to a tragedy for Groote and his family, this is an unfortunate sign. Ebola isn’t going...
Some good news from the WHO is being released today. ”Guinea and Sierra Leone each recorded a single cases of Ebola in the past week, putting a year-end goal of ending the deadly epidemic within reach although risks remain, the...
Today, at the IMF-World Bank Group Spring Meeting leaders of the three Ebola-affected West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, will share their plans for early recovery and efforts to rebuild resilient health systems. With Ebola cases declining, these...
