Global Health Ebola Update 12/3

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Hans Rosling Is on the Case
You probably know Hans Rosling from ** his TED Talks (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=f62dfbe354&e=9c1fcebfa3)
like the one on “** The best stats you’ve ever seen (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=698d117c52&e=9c1fcebfa3)
” (9.1 million views). He’s a global health big wheel and former head of global health at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. For the last month and a half now, he’s been in Monrovia, Liberia doing what he can to help in the Ebola fight.

In a brisk, riveting profile for ScienceInsider, Kai Kupferschmidt chronicles the unassuming intellectual giant’s work there. He started off proofreading the health ministry’s epi reports and organizing a fund that gave health workers phone cards so they could call in their reports. He’s now helping improve the data collection process so workers will have more accurate contact lists for Ebola patients—a huge boost to contact tracing efforts.

This is a terrific piece and a quick read on the blunt, almost always right Rosling.
** ScienceInsider (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=278c78403f&e=9c1fcebfa3)

Related: 35 U.S. hospitals designated as Ebola treatment centers – ** US Department of Health & Human Services (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=41af227e81&e=9c1fcebfa3 )

Related: North Korea says U.S. created the Ebola outbreak – ** Washington Post (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=199e3c328f&e=9c1fcebfa3)

Related: World's Ebola response slow, patchy and inadequate, Médecins sans Frontières says – ** The Guardian (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=ad111c9bc8&e=9c1fcebfa3)


Related: Sierra Leone widens Ebola quarantine – ** AFP (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=540b4c4d6f&e=9c1fcebfa3)