WHO Calls End Of Ebola Transmission In Liberia A “Monumental Achievement” Agency Identifies Success Factors The World Health Organization declared Liberia free of Ebola virus transmission in early May after 42 days without a laboratory confirmed case. In describing the achievement, WHO provided one of the most vivid accounts of the impact of the outbreak as it occurred during August and September 2014 when Liberia was reporting 300-400 new cases every week.
months, the capital city Monrovia was the setting for some of the most tragic scenes from West Africa’s outbreak: gates locked at overflowing treatment centres, patients dying on the hospital grounds, and bodies that were sometimes not collected for days... …Flights were cancelled. Fuel and food ran low. Schools, businesses, borders, markets, and most health facilities were closed. Fear and
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Bringing Research Findings To The Policy Table Has No Clear Pathway and Many Challenges, Say Investigators An academic and government research team examining the interface between researchers and policy makers note that “…the peer reviewed public health literature has devoted little attention to understanding and improving the ways in which researchers get their work into policy pathways.” To address this shortcoming, the team, led by the University of Washington’s
Jennifer Otten undertook a series of interviews with public health nutrition and obesity researchers known for being highly involved in communicating research to policy makers. The team, reporting in Preventing Chronic Disease on April 30 found a wide variation in communication practices and even - Policy continues on page 6
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