Ebola: A Personal Perspective on a Global Issue

HHS Secretary’s Global Health and Human Services Lecture Series Please join Secretary Burwell in welcoming Dr. Kent Brantly for the Secretary’s Global Health and Human Services Lecture Series. Dr. Kent Brantly is a Family Medicine physician who served as a medical missionary at ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. In the spring of 2014, Dr. Brantly found himself fighting on the front lines of the battle against the deadliest Ebola outbreak to ever occur. In early July, Samaritan’s Purse, the organization for which Dr. Brantly worked, took over responsibility for the clinical care of Ebola patients for the entire nation of Liberia. Dr. Brantly was appointed as Medical Director for what would become the only Ebola Treatment Unit in all of southern Liberia. On July 26, he was diagnosed with Ebola Virus Disease, which set off a firestorm of media attention. Dr. Brantly became the first person in the world to receive the experimental drug Zmapp, and the first person with Ebola to be treated in the United States when he was evacuated to Emory University Hospital. He now feels it his privilege and duty to speak out on behalf of the people of West Africa who continue to suffer from Ebola. In 2014, he, along with other medical professionals involved in treating Ebola patients, became TIME Magazine's Person of the Year. Dr. Brantly will share his personal perspective on the Ebola outbreak, from motivations for working in West Africa to his role in the Ebola outbreak, highl...
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