Ebola: A Symptom of Vulnerable Health Systems? Presented by: Amref Health Africa’s Coffeehouse Speakers Series on global development Featuring: Dr. David Fisman Dalla Lana School of Public Health Dr. Isaac Bogoch University Health Network Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine University of Toronto
Amref Health Africa's Coffeehouse Speakers Series on global development took a look at the Ebola outbreak in West Africa - featuring lively conversation from our panelists and the audience.
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Ebola: A Symptom of Vulnerable Health Systems?
Presented by:
Amref Health Africa’s Coffeehouse Speakers Series on global development
Featuring:
Dr. David Fisman Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Dr. Isaac Bogoch University Health Network
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine University of Toronto
Quotable
“If I don’t volunteer, who can do this work?”
Kandeh Kamara, one of the volunteers burying bodies across eastern Sierra Leone
“The most important element of communicating the threat of the Ebola outbreak for both the government and corporate leaders is to provide factual information while also preventing panic and fear.”
Tevi Troy, President, American Health Policy Institute
A wall depicting the symptoms of Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia
“Community engagement is key to successfully controlling outbreaks. Good outbreak control relies on applying a package of interventions, namely case management, surveillance and contact tracing, a good laboratory service, safe burials and social mobilization.”
The most severely affected countries, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have very weak health systems, lacking human and infrastructural resources, having only recently emerged from long periods of conict and instability.