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Ebola causing trauma among children, families in Sierra Leone
Children and families in Sierra Leone are coping with “massive trauma” because of the Ebola epidemic, according to Theresa Betancourt of Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Betancourt was quoted in a December 22, 2014 Huffington Post article…
Students 'hack' Ebola
Harvard School of Public Health was well-represented at the Harvard HackEbola (with Data!) event, held November 21-23, 2014. Students and researchers worked in teams to develop methods for more effective data mining to predict Ebola cases, and one…
HSPH faculty member, alumnus, among Ebola fighters named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’
Pardis Sabeti, associate professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and Mosoka Fallah, MPH ’12, were among the Ebola fighters — doctors, nurses, caregivers, scientists, and directors — named…
On the Ground: Alumnus Battles the Nightmare in Liberia
As the deadly infection rages through West Africa, Harvard Chan faculty, students, and alumni are waging a counterattack: on the ground, in the lab, on the humanitarian front, and in the political sphere. A special report by Harvard…
Simple preventive measures may help stem Ebola
December 5, 2014 – The rush to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in the last few months has generated years’ worth of new information about the previously little understood infectious disease, including simple but effective prevention…
Getting a detailed picture of Ebola
The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT is now “the world’s most powerful factory for analyzing genes from people and viruses,” according to an article in the New York Times, published December 1, 2014. The article highlighted the…
Humanitarian response to Ebola outbreak slow, fragmented
November 20, 2014 -- The humanitarian response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been fraught with challenges, according to Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and professor in the Department of Global Health and…
To stop Ebola, strengthen health systems in West Africa
The current Ebola crisis spread quickly in West African countries, some of the poorest in the world, where health systems are poorly developed or dysfunctional. The best way to contain the epidemic is for the international community to…
Base Ebola quarantine policies on science
Quarantining health care workers returning to the U.S. after caring for Ebola patients in West Africa isn’t a science-based strategy, according to Ashish Jha of Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Doing so, in fact, could dissuade these…
Ebola: U.S. should learn from West Africa’s response
In the weeks since the first case of Ebola was diagnosed in the United States, officials have repeatedly tried to reassure Americans that this is “not West Africa.” This is a wrong-headed attitude, according to an editorial by…