Ebola: Beyond the Headlines

Join Dr. Paul Farmer for an evening of firsthand reports from doctors on the front lines of Ebola who are mounting a global response with Bay Area partners. Partners In Health, Last Mile Health of Liberia, and Wellbody Alliance of Sierra Leone have launched an ambitious campaign to scale up Ebola response and rebuild primary health systems serving over 1 million people. They are already working to train health workers, identify sick patients, and deliver quality care. Partners from UCSF, Berkeley, and Stanford are coming together to support the global response, which requires staff, tools, and systems to contain the outbreak. Amid this crisis lies the opportunity to strengthen local health systems to not only address Ebola, but to reduce the burden of other preventable and treatable diseases – including HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis. "It would be scandalous to let this crisis escalate further when we have the knowledge, tools, and resources to stop it."

Speakers: Paul Farmer, Dan Kelly and Raj Panjabi in Conversation