Professor David Heymann: interview 2 and PDF transcript

Date:
19/03/2015
Reference:
OH3/18/2
Part of:
Ebola Voices Oral Histories
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Interview date may not be correct, second interview seems to have taken place at a later date. [00:00:00] lack of engagement at a community level for Ebola, the public health response, 70:70:60 target during Ebola and the lack of concentration on contact tracing, Informal Advisory Group being set up. [00:10:00] Ebola diagnostic tests, laboratory diagnostics, EU, U.S, Canada mobile Ebola laboratories. [00:15:00] Importance of community engagement lessons from earlier Ebola outbreaks. [00:17:30] Talks about GOARN [Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network]. [00:24:50] Impact of Sars outbreak in 2003, World Health Organization restricting certain partners. [00:30:45] Health security, international health regulations. [00:34:20] Talks about Mers outbreak, influenza outbreaks, HIV, talks about earlier Ebola cases [Tom Kerns] in previous outbreaks (pre-2014). [00:43:00] Ebola surveillance, Ebola diagnostic tests, increased population, livestock. [00:44:30] Chimpanzee Ebola Outbreak in 1990s, Ebola in West Africa in 1990s [00:47:14] End of interview.

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19/03/2015

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476 MB 1 WAV file, 1 transcript

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Copyright in this interview is held by Wellcome Collection.

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PDF transcript created by archivist for preservation and access reasons. See OH3/18/3 for original Microsoft Word format version of transcript.

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