Ebola: Can We Avoid A Global Pandemic?

Description

Associated Program:
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
Speakers:
Michael VanRooyen
Dyann Wirth
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Co-Sponsors:
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Program on Crisis Leadership
Harvard School of Public Health

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia joined Dr. Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Dyann Wirth, Professor and Chair in the School of Public Health, in a discussion about the 2014 ebola outbreak in West Africa. Moderator Sheila Burke, MPA, RN, FAAN, led the participants in considering the impacts of ebola and the appropriate responses available to the international community.