Season 1 · Episode 31
031 - Lessons from Liberia: What the US Can Learn from the 2014 Ebola Outbreak
Public Health On Call · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
April 6, 202015m 57s
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Show Notes
In 2014, Tolbert Nyenswah, then an assistant minister of health in Liberia, was tapped to lead the nation's response to the Ebola epidemic. Under his leadership, an Incident Management System deployed thousands of epidemiologists, case managers, and contact tracers in a technical response that brought the outbreak under control. Nyenswah talks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what the US can learn from Liberia's experience and what needs to happen soon to get ahead of the curve.
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