ZINGESER, JAMES
Interview 1: Dr. James A. Zingeser, senior project advisor for Guinea worm eradication at the Carter Center, provides some personal history and then describes his engagement with the 2014-16 Ebola response of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Zingeser worked as a response lead in Guinea and CDC liaison to the Food and Agriculture Organization.
Interview 2: Dr. James A. Zingeser, senior project advisor for Guinea worm eradication at the Carter Center, continues to describe his engagement with the 2014-16 Ebola response of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
August 30, 2017, and September 21, 2017
WU, HENRY
Dr. Henry M. Wu, director of the TravelWell Center at Emory University's Midtown Atlanta hospital, discusses adapting procedures for seeing patients in his travel clinic during the 2014-16 Ebola epidemic. During the epidemic, his clinic saw a steady flow of patients who had recently returned from West Africa.
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September 13, 2016
WONG, KAREN
Dr. Karen Wong briefly reviews her career, then discusses her work responding to the 2013-16 West African Ebola epidemic with the United States Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Wong treated Ebola patients in the Monrovia Medical Unit, a facility built just outside Monrovia, Liberia, by the US Department of Defense, which admitted Ebola-infected healthcare workers. Dr. Wong served on MMU Team One in the fall of 2014. At the CDC in Atlanta, she worked on modeling the epidemic in Guinea and served as the deputy lead of the clinical guidance team in the Emergency Operations Center.
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March 29, 2016
WILLIAMS, DESMOND
Interview 1: Dr. Desmond E. Williams, director of the Liberia office of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gives a brief, chronological account of his life and career up through the early days of Sierra Leone's 2014-16 Ebola epidemic.
Interview 2: Dr. Desmond E. Williams, director of the Liberia office of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, describes his time leading CDC's Ebola response in Sierra Leone's Western Area during the rise in cases in late 2014 and 2015. Dr. Williams served in several capacities with the response, including epidemiology and surveillance, communications and community engagement. He then turned his attention to Liberia, at first as a response lead, then as country director of CDC's newly formed Liberia office.
April 1, 2016, and June 9, 2016
VILLAR, CARMEN
Carmen S. Villar, chief of staff at CDC, discusses her role in the agency's 2014-16 Ebola response. In addition to carrying out the vision of the agency's director, Tom Frieden, Villar oversaw the creation of the Office of the Director Liaison Office to address the countless questions and requests CDC received related to the epidemic.
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August 2, 2016
VERTEFEUILLE, JOHN
Dr. John F. Vertefeuille, chief of the Polio Eradication Branch within the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provides some personal history and then describes his engagement with CDC's 2014-16 Ebola epidemic response. Dr. Vertefeuille served as a team lead during CDC's Nigeria response and a deputy team lead/epidemiology lead for CDC's Liberia response.
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June 22, 2017
VANDI, MOHAMED
Dr. Mohamed A. Vandi, district medical officer (DMO) for Kenema District in Sierra Leone, gives some personal history and then describes his time working to stem the 2014-16 Ebola epidemic. As DMO, Dr. Vandi served a lead role in coordinating disease surveillance and community engagement during the epidemic.
A PDF OF THIS INTERVIEW CAN BE FOUND AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE.
March 24, 2017
UYEKI, TIMOTHY
Interview 1: Dr. Timothy M. Uyeki, chief medical officer in CDC's Influenza Division, summarizes his experiences leading the clinical team of CDC's 2014-16 Ebola response. Among his contributions, Dr. Uyeki facilitated communication between clinicians treating Ebola patients in the United States and Europe.
Interview 2: Dr. Timothy M. Uyeki, chief medical officer in CDC's Influenza Division, continues to discuss his role as lead of the clinical team for CDC's response to the 2014-16 Ebola epidemic. Dr. Uyeki describes facilitating conversations among clinicians, maintaining patient confidentiality, and working on Ebola survivor issues.
April 29, 2016 and May 20, 2016
TUMPEY, ABBIGAIL
Abbigail J. Tumpey, associate director of communication science for CDC's Center for Surveillance Epidemiology and Laboratory Services, provides some personal background and then describes her involvement in CDC's 2014-16 Ebola response. Tumpey led CDC communications for all healthcare issues during the response.
A PDF OF THIS INTERVIEW CAN BE FOUND AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE.
February 1, 2018