Category: sierra leone

Partner, Train, Respond: Increasing Global Emergency Management Capacity

People walking a busy street in Zanzibar.

Countries in Africa are no strangers to major disease outbreaks that can result in illness and death of millions of people. In the past two years alone the continent has experienced infectious disease outbreaks of cholera, meningitis, Ebola Virus Disease, Lassa fever, and Yellow fever, and other public health emergencies such as drought and famine. Read More >

October 30, 2017 by Loretta Jackson Brown, PhD, RN, Health Communication Specialist and Meredith Pinto, MPH, Health Scientist1 Comment

preparedness, response

africa, exercise, Global Health Security, preparedness, public health, public health emergency management, Public Health Emergency Operations Center, response, sierra leone, Tanzania, training, workforce development

Ebola Response: Year in Review

A person washing their hands at a water station in West Africa

Throughout the month of December, Public Health Matters is conducting a series of year-in-review posts of some of the most impactful disease outbreaks of 2015. These posts will give you a glimpse of the work CDC is doing to prevent, identify, and respond to public health threats. Getting to Zero Getting to Zero was a Read More >

December 14, 2015 by Blog Administrator1 Comment

Disease Investigation, Disease Outbreak, preparedness, response

africa, ebola, global, guinea, liberia, public health, response, sierra leone, west africa