Dr Chris Lewis: interview 4 and PDF transcript

[00:00:00] June and July 2014 lack of organisation to deliver Ebola response and lack of information, funding in emergency situation, arriving in Sierra Leone, conversations with international organisations on what more could be done. [00:04:00] Discussion about Oliver Johnson interview, funding for maximum number of beds. [00:10:00] Government ministers wanting a strategy put together. [00:12:00] meeting with World Health Organisation. [00:12:49] Talks about aim of ‘Getting to Zero’, UK government response and how they helped, role of the international community. [00:15:30] Social mobilisation funding. [00:16:50] Army, joint integrated task force, NERC (National Ebola Response Centre) and DERC’s (District Ebola Response Centres). [00:20:00] Ebola response model pillar design. [00:21:00] Discussion of comparison with humanitarian response model. [00:23:00] Describes different levels of DFID funding for Ebola. [00:25:00] Why DERC’s worked better some places than others and reasons for that. [00:27:30] Discussion around lack of trust from local communities in Ebola healthcare/science. [00:33:50] Rural challenges in Sierra Leone, anthropologist’s role. [00:37:00] End of interview.

10/06/2015

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