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Quarantining health workers returning from Ebola-stricken countries ‘unfair and unwise’
The governors of states including New York and New Jersey who recently imposed 21-day quarantines on health workers returning to the U.S. from West Africa, where they may have cared for Ebola patients, were wrong to do so,…
Cracking Ebola’s genetic code
Pardis Sabeti has been a leader in the effort to analyze Ebola’s genetic code and track its mutations. Sabeti, who is an associate professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard School of Public Health,…
U.S. hospitals prepare for Ebola
Ashish Jha, K.T. Li Professor of International Health at HSPH, and director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, has done a number of interviews with national media outlets over the last few days on controlling the spread of…
Poll: Most believe Ebola likely spread by multiple routes, including sneezing, coughing
Most think people would survive Ebola if they received immediate medical care For immediate release: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 Boston, MA – A Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)/SSRS poll released today shows most people in the U.S.…
Investing in health systems may stem Ebola outbreak
A broad humanitarian response that includes investments in health care staff, medical resources, and health systems is more likely to be effective in halting the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa and creating sustainable models for responding to…
‘Multiple failures’ in handling of first U.S. Ebola patient
Health officials’ handling of the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. appeared to involve “literally multiple failures,” according to Harvard School of Public Health’s Ashish Jha. Jha, professor of health policy and management, was quoted in an…
Ebola epidemic is stoppable
The Ebola epidemic is stoppable—if health professionals use procedures that are known to be effective in quelling such outbreaks, and by widening the international response to Ebola in West Africa, according to Atul Gawande. Writing in The New…
Ebola’s disastrous effects could ramp up significantly
West African nations like Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia could suffer exponentially more disastrous effects from the Ebola virus if the international response to the epidemic isn’t improved, according to a panel of experts speaking Sept. 23, 2014…
Predicting Ebola’s spread using cell phone data
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) epidemiologist Caroline Buckee and her team are using cell phone data to track travel patterns across West Africa to help fight the Ebola epidemic. Such data—including unique cell phone “pings” from cell…
Combating Ebola by gaining trust
Mosoka Fallah, MPH ’12, who grew up in Monrovia, Liberia, has returned to the capital city to help contain the spreading Ebola epidemic. An epidemiologist and immunologist, Fallah has been systematically leading teams of volunteers through the city’s…