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

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ID23323184
AuthorsSuerie Moon (0000-0001-8504-1212, Harvard University, corresponding author), Devi Sridhar (0000-0002-5058-9023, University of Edinburgh), Muhammad Ali Pate (0000-0001-5295-9844, Duke Institute for Health Innovation), Ashish K Jha (0000-0002-6602-6444, Harvard University), Chelsea Clinton (Clinton Foundation), Sophie Delaunay (Médecins Sans Frontières), Valnora Edwin (Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre), Mosoka Fallah (0000-0001-8740-4072, Planned Parenthood Association of Liberia), David P Fidler (Indiana University Bloomington), Laurie Garrett (Council on Foreign Relations), Eric Goosby (University of California, San Francisco), Lawrence O Gostin (0000-0001-5286-4044, Georgetown University), David L Heymann (Chatham House), K Lee (0000-0002-3625-1915, Simon Fraser University), Gabriel M Leung, Genevieve Leung (0000-0002-2503-6283, University of Hong Kong), J Stephen Morrison, Jorge Saavedra (0000-0001-8974-7861), Marcel Tanner (0000-0002-1205-6971, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute), Jennifer Leigh (0000-0001-6319-4269, Harvard University), Jennifer A Leigh, Brian Hawkins (0000-0002-7027-8046, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Benjamin Hawkins, Liana Woskie (0000-0002-7451-6849, Harvard University), Liana R Woskie, Peter Piot (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Year2015
Volume386
Issue10009
Pages2204-2221
Publication date2015-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Lancet (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0099-5355 • E-ISSN: 0140-6736
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/s0140-6736(15)00946-0
PMID26615326
OpenAlexW2177800297
LanguageEN
Citations received105
References cited19

The west African Ebola epidemic that began in 2013 exposed deep inadequacies in the national and international institutions responsible for protecting the public from the far-reaching human, social, economic, and political consequences of infectious disease outbreaks. The Ebola epidemic raised a crucial question: what reforms are needed to mend the fragile global system for outbreak prevention and response, rebuild confidence, and prevent future disasters? To address this question, the Harvard Global Health Institute and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine jointly launched the Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Development economics · Disease · Ebola virus · Economic growth · Economics · Global health · Health care · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Outbreak · Pandemic · Political science · Sierra leone · Disaster Response and Management · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Medicine · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research · Virology