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PRIMARY READING
Moon, S., Sridhar, D., Pate, M., Jha, A. et al. (2015) Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola. The Lancet. 1-18.
WEEK 1
CORE:
Jha, Ashish & Andrew S. Boozary, Paul E. Farmer. The Ebola Outbreak, Fragile Health Systems, and Quality as a Cure, Ashish K. Jha. JAMA, Nov 2014. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1915433
Farmer, Paul. Diary, London Review of Books, Oct 2015. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n20/paul-farmer/diary
WHO Ebola Virus Fact Sheet. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/
SUPPLEMENTARY:
Bergquist, R., Yang, G.-J., Knopp, S., Utzinger, J., and Tanner, M. (2015). Surveillance and response: Tools and approaches for the elimination stage of neglected tropical diseases. Acta Tropica 141, Part B, 229–234.
Camacho, A., Kucharski, A.J., Funk, S., Breman, J., Piot, P., and Edmunds, W.J. (2014). Potential for large outbreaks of Ebola virus disease. Epidemics 9, 70–78.
Connolly, M.A., Gayer, M., Ryan, M.J., Salama, P., Spiegel, P., and Heymann, D.L. (2004). Communicable diseases in complex emergencies: impact and challenges. The Lancet 364, 1974–1983.
Farmer, Paul. The Caregivers’ Disease, London Review of Books, May 2015. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/paul-farmer/the-caregivers-disease
Garrett, L. (2012). The sea is full of sharks. The Lancet 379, 1939–1940.
Klompas, M., and Yokoe, D.S. (2015). The Ebola transmission paradox. American Journal of Infection Control 43, 786–787.
Moghadam, S.R.J., Omidi, N., Bayrami, S., Moghadam, S.J., and SeyedAlinaghi, S. (2015). Ebola viral disease: a review literature. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 5, 260–267.
Rewar, S., and Mirdha, D. (2014). Transmission of Ebola Virus Disease: An Overview. Annals of Global Health 80, 444–451.
Roca, A., Afolabi, M.O., Saidu, Y., and Kampmann, B. (2015). Ebola: A holistic approach is required to achieve effective management and control. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 135, 856–867.
Shears, P., and O’Dempsey, T.J.D. (2015). Ebola virus disease in Africa: epidemiology and nosocomial transmission. Journal of Hospital Infection 90, 1–9.
Torre, G.L., Nicosia, V., and Cardi, M. (2014). Ebola: a review on the state of the art on prevention and treatment. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 4, 925–927.
WEEK 2
CORE:
Bhadelia, N. (2015). Rapid diagnostics for Ebola in emergency settings. The Lancet 386, 833–835.
Farmer, Paul and Joia Mukherjee. Ebola’s front lines: Countries need tools to treat patients in their homes and communities, The Boston Globe, Sept 2014. http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/09/23/responding-ebola-countries-need-staff-stuff-space-and-systems/ugSFKkOw9S7Ser0p8PGeOK/story.html
Lancet, T. (2014d). Ebola: protection of health-care workers. The Lancet 384, 2174.
SUPPLEMENTARY:
Alfaki, M.M., Salih, A.M.M., Elhuda, D.A., and Egail, M.S. Knowledge, attitude and practice of health care providers toward Ebola virus disease in hotspots in Khartoum and White Nile states, Sudan, 2014. American Journal of Infection Control.
Buseh, A.G., Stevens, P.E., Bromberg, M., and Kelber, S.T. (2015). The Ebola epidemic in West Africa: Challenges, opportunities, and policy priority areas. Nursing Outlook 63, 30–40.
Butler, Y.S. (2014). Ebola Virus: Exposing the Inadequacies of Public Health in Liberia. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 89, 1596–1598.
Collins, Prince. Liberians Plant Trees to Remember Ebola Victims. Voice of America, 2015. http://www.voanews.com/content/liberians-plant-trees-to-honor-dead-ebola-victims/3064982.html
Dannatt, Tom. Sierra Leone's Ebola battle is being led by local talent that deserves our support. TheGuardian.com, 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/dec/06/sierra-leone-ebola-local-talent-street-child-tom-dannattHeiHe
Dionne, Kim Yi. Ebola outbreak spotlights the limits of local and international response. AlJazeera.com. 2014 http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/7/ebola-outbreak-westafricahealthcare.html
Diseases, T.L.I. (2014a). Ebola in west Africa. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 14, 779.
Farmer, P. (2014). The largest ever epidemic of Ebola: 1 October 2014. Reproductive Health Matters 22, 157–162.
Gostin, L.O., and Gostin, K.G. (2009). A broader liberty: J.S. Mill, paternalism and the public’s health. Public Health 123, 214–221.
Jimoh, L., Pate, M.A., Lin, L., and Schulman, K.A. (2012). A model for the adoption of ICT by health workers in Africa. International Journal of Medical Informatics 81, 773–781.
Kokutse, Frances. University at heart of Ebola battle badly hit by deaths. University World News, 2015. http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20151119190903429
Lancet, T. (2014a). Ebola in west Africa: gaining community trust and confidence. The Lancet 383, 1946.
Malamut, Melissa. A Boston Doctor vs. Ebola. Boston Magazine, 2014. http://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/article/2014/11/25/boston-doctor-nahid-bhadelia-ebola/
Moore, Jina. The Hidden Heroes Of Liberia’s Ebola Crisis. Buzzfeed.com. 2014. http://www.buzzfeed.com/jinamoore/meet-some-of-the-hidden-heroes-of-liberias-ebola-crisis#.lp78JjG7o0
Okoli, U., Abdullahi, M.J., Pate, M.A., Abubakar, I.S., Aniebue, N., and West, C. (2012). Prenatal care and basic emergency obstetric care services provided at primary healthcare facilities in rural Nigeria. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 117, 61–65.
One Doctor's Campaign To Pay Those Who Risked Their Lives. http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/09/06/438114369/one-doctors-campaign-to-pay-those-who-risked-their-lives
Vogt, Heidi. Liberian Ebola Survivors Return to Help the Sick. The Wall Street Journal, 2014. http://www.wsj.com/articles/liberian-ebola-survivor-now-comforts-other-patients-1413301824?mod=e2fb
Williams, G.S., Naiene, J., Gayflor, J., Malibiche, T., Zoogley, B., Frank Jr., W.G., and Nayeri, F. (2015). Twenty-one days of isolation: A prospective observational cohort study of an Ebola-exposed hot zone community in Liberia. Journal of Infection 71, 150–157.
Yiannakis, E.P., and Boswell, T.C. (2015). Ebola preparedness: a personal perspective. Journal of Hospital Infection 91, 8–10.
WEEK 3
CORE:
Diseases, T.L.I. (2014b). Rationality and coordination for Ebola outbreak in west Africa. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 14, 1163.
Gostin, L. (2004). The International Health Regulations and beyond. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 4, 606–607.
Gostin, L. (2006). Legal foundations of public health law and its role in meeting future challenges. Public Health 120, Supplement 1, 8–14.
Gostin, L.O., Monahan, J.T., DeBartolo, M.C., and Horton, R. (2015a). Law’s power to safeguard global health: a Lancet–O’Neill Institute, Georgetown University Commission on Global Health and the Law. The Lancet 385, 1603–1604.
Gostin, L.O., Sridhar, D., and Hougendobler, D. (2015b). The normative authority of the World Health Organization. Public Health 129, 854–863.
Lancet, T. (2014c). Ebola: what lessons for the International Health Regulations? The Lancet 384, 1321.
SUPPLEMENTARY:
Cooper, Charlie. Peter Piot interview: 'I never imagined the Ebola virus would get out of control'. Independent.co.uk, 2014. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/peter-piot-interview-i-never-imagined-the-ebola-virus-would-get-out-of-control-9945152.html
Gostin, L.O. (2007). General justifications for public health regulation. Public Health 121, 829–834.
Gostin, L.O., Sridhar, D., and Hougendobler, D. (2015). The normative authority of the World Health Organization. Public Health 129, 854–863.
Kimball, A.M., and Heymann, D. (2014). Ebola, International Health Regulations, and global safety. The Lancet 384, 2023.
Lancet, T. (2014b). Ebola: a failure of international collective action. The Lancet 384, 637.
Lee, K., Sridhar, D., and Patel, M. (2009). Bridging the divide: global governance of trade and health. The Lancet 373, 416–422.
Piot, P., Muyembe, J.-J., and Edmunds, W.J. (2014). Ebola in west Africa: from disease outbreak to humanitarian crisis. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 14, 1034–1035.
Rabeeah, A.A., Memish, Z.A., Zumla, A., Shafi, S., McCloskey, B., Moolla, A., Barbeschi, M., Heymann, D., and Horton, R. (2012). Mass gatherings medicine and global health security. The Lancet 380, 3–4.
Vaughan, J.P., Mogedal, S., Kruse, S.-E., Lee, K., Walt, G., and de Wilde, K. (1996). Financing the World Health Organisation: global importance of extrabudgetary funds. Health Policy 35, 229–245.
WEEK 4
CORE:
Moon, S., Sridhar, D., Pate, M., Jha, A. et al. (2015) Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola. The Lancet. 1-18.
Clinton, Chelsea & Devi Sridhar. Ebola shows how our global health priorities need to be shaken up, TheGuardian.com, May 2015. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/06/ebola-global-health-priorities-chelsea-clinton
Panjabi, Raj. Ebola’s Legacy Can Be a Thriving Community Health System. Open Society Foundations. Oct 2014. https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/ebola-s-legacy-can-be-thriving-community-health-system
Speaking with: Lawrence Gostin on Ebola, the WHO and the future of global health, The Conversation, 2015. http://theconversation.com/speaking-with-lawrence-gostin-on-ebola-the-who-and-the-future-of-global-health-47189
SUPPLEMENTARY:
Adebamowo, C., Bah-Sow, O., Binka, F., Bruzzone, R., Caplan, A., Delfraissy, J.-F., Heymann, D., Horby, P., Kaleebu, P., Tamfum, J.-J.M., et al. (2014). Randomised controlled trials for Ebola: practical and ethical issues. The Lancet 384, 1423–1424.
Castillo-Chavez, C., Curtiss, R., Daszak, P., Levin, S.A., Patterson-Lomba, O., Perrings, C., Poste, G., and Towers, S. (2015). Beyond Ebola: lessons to mitigate future pandemics. The Lancet Global Health 3, e354–e355.
Diseases, T.L.I. (2015). The Ebola endgame, and what comes after. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 15, 615.
Edelstein, M., Angelides, P., and Heymann, D.L. (2015). Ebola: the challenging road to recovery. The Lancet 385, 2234–2235.
Farmer, Paul. The secret to curing West Africa from Ebola is no secret at all, The Washington Post, Jan 2015. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/paul-farmer-the-secret-to-curing-west-africa-from-ebola-is-no-secret-at-all/2015/01/16/658a6686-9cb9-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html
Fidler, David. Ebola and Global Health Governance: Time for the Reckoning, Chatham House, 2014. https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/15811#
Fidler, David. Tough medicine for health governance, g7g20.com, 2014. http://www.g7g20.com/articles/david-p-fidler-tough-medicine-for-health-governance
Frenk, J., Gómez-Dantés, O., and Moon, S. (2014). From sovereignty to solidarity: a renewed concept of global health for an era of complex interdependence. The Lancet 383, 94–97.
Gostin, L.O. (2014). Ebola: towards an International Health Systems Fund. The Lancet 384, e49–e51.
Gostin, L.O., and Friedman, E.A. (2014). Ebola: a crisis in global health leadership. The Lancet 384, 1323–1325.
Gostin, L.O., and Friedman, E.A. (2015). A retrospective and prospective analysis of the west African Ebola virus disease epidemic: robust national health systems at the foundation and an empowered WHO at the apex. Lancet 385, 1902–1909.
Guest, Peter. How much did Ebola cost Sierra Leone? CNN.com, 2015. http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/12/africa/sierra-leone-ebola-recovery/
Heymann, D.L., Chen, L., Takemi, K., Fidler, D.P., Tappero, J.W., Thomas, M.J., Kenyon, T.A., Frieden, T.R., Yach, D., Nishtar, S., et al. (2015a). Global health security: the wider lessons from the west African Ebola virus disease epidemic. The Lancet 385, 1884–1901.
Heymann, D.L., Rodier, G.R., and Ryan, M.J. (2015b). Ebola vaccines: keep the clinical trial protocols on the shelf and ready to roll out. The Lancet 385, 1913–1915.
Heymann, David. Ebola and Future Health Crises: The Role of the G7, g7g20.com. 2015.http://www.g7g20.com/articles/michael-edelstein-david-l-heymann-and-philip-k-angelides-ebola-and-future-health-crises-the-role-of-
Ippolito, G., Lanini, S., Brouqui, P., Di Caro, A., Vairo, F., Abdulla, S., Fusco, F.M., Krishna, S., Capobianchi, M.R., Kyobe-Bosa, H., et al. Ebola: missed opportunities for Europe–Africa research. The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Kickbusch, I., and Reddy, K.S. (2015). Global health governance – the next political revolution. Public Health 129, 838–842.
Lancet, T. (2015a). Ebola in west Africa: getting to zero. The Lancet 385, 578.
Lancet, T. (2015b). An Ebola vaccine: first results and promising opportunities. The Lancet 386, 830.
Lanini, S., Zumla, A., Ioannidis, J.P.A., Caro, A.D., Krishna, S., Gostin, L., Girardi, E., Pletschette, M., Strada, G., Baritussio, A., et al. (2015). Are adaptive randomised trials or non-randomised studies the best way to address the Ebola outbreak in west Africa? The Lancet Infectious Diseases 15, 738–745.
Lederer, Edith. UN Ebola Chief Says Priority Now Is Helping 15,000 Survivors. ABC news, 2015. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ebola-chief-priority-now-helping-15000-survivors-35293082
McCloskey, B., Dar, O., Zumla, A., and Heymann, D.L. (2014). Emerging infectious diseases and pandemic potential: status quo and reducing risk of global spread. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 14, 1001–1010.
McNeill Jr., Donald G. Ask Well: Ebola and Sex. The New York Times, 2015. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/ask-well-ebola-and-sex/
Moon, S. (2014). WHO’s role in the global health system: what can be learned from global R&D debates? Public Health 128, 167–172.
Ninsiima, Racheal. Uganda: Ebola Leaves its Survivors On Their Knees. AllAfrica.com, 2015. http://allafrica.com/stories/201511180948.html
Ooms, G., Sridhar, D., and Jahn, A. (2013). Global health governance after 2015. The Lancet 382, 1017.
Recovery in Liberia: After Ebola. The Economist, 2015. http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21678261-beating-virus-just-beginning-after-ebola
Ross, A.G.P., Crowe, S.M., and Tyndall, M.W. (2015). Planning for the Next Global Pandemic. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 38, 89–94.
Searcy, Dionne. Guinea, Last Nation With Ebola, May Soon Be Declared Free of Virus. The New York Times, 2015.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/world/africa/guinea-last-nation-with-ebola-may-soon-be-declared-free-of-virus.html
Searcey, Dionne. The Last Place on Earth With Ebola: Getting Guinea to Zero. The New York Times, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/world/africa/the-last-place-on-earth-with-ebola-guineas-fight-to-get-to-zero.html?_r=0
Schmidt, H, Gostin, L, and Emanuel, E. Public health, universal health coverage, and Sustainable Development Goals: can they coexist? Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2015. http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1491/
Sridhar, D., and Gostin, L. (2014). World Health Organization: past, present and future. Public Health 128, 117–118.
Sridhar, D. (2011). Health policy: from the clinical to the economic gaze. The Lancet 378, 1909.
Sridhar, D., and Batniji, R. (2008). Misfinancing global health: a case for transparency in disbursements and decision making. The Lancet 372, 1185–1191.
Sridhar, D., and Woods, N. (2010). Are there simple conclusions on how to channel health funding? The Lancet 375, 1326–1328.
Stanton, Dan. Future epidemic trials must cut through red tape, says Ebola researcher. in-Pharmatechnologist.com, 2015. http://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/Regulatory-Safety/Ebola-researcher-Future-epidemic-trials-must-cut-through-red-tape
