October 2, 2014
Webcast and Live Chat: 12:30-1:30pm ET
Presented by the Harvard School of Public Health and NPR NPR
The current Ebola outbreak is the largest outbreak of the hemorrhagic disease in history, according to the CDC. Experimental treatments and vaccine testing offer hope of relief. However, the crisis has dramatically strained healthcare systems and humanitarian efforts, while sparking deep concern in the public. How did we get here and what’s to be done to help the affected countries and to prevent further spread?
We’ll be conducting a live chat on The Forum’s Ebola Disaster web page during the live webcast.
You also can Tweet questions for the panelists before or during the live webcast to @ForumHSPH using #ebolaHSPHforum. Or email them to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu.
EXPERT PARTICIPANTS
David Heymann, Former WHO Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment. Dr. Heymann investigated the first (1976) and second (1977) Ebola outbreaks and directed the international response to the Ebola outbreak in Kikwit (1995)
Barry Bloom, Former Dean, Harvard School of Public Health, and Professor, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, HSPH
Michael VanRooyen, Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and Vice Chairman of Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine
Stephen Gire, Research Scientist studying the Ebola virus genome, Harvard University and Broad Institute
MODERATOR
Joe Neel, Deputy Senior Supervising Editor and a Correspondent on the Science Desk, NPR