It was exciting so thank you to steve in particular for organizing that segment. F a forn what are the implications of what weve heard this morning and particularly what are the implications as we look ahead to what can be done . And so im really excited about group that we have here. And let me just briefly introduce the panelists going across from my left. First is superkemp. Susan kemp. She is the Deputy Director of the Oneil Institute at georgetown university. Susan is trained in law, Public Health and business and holds jd, mp h m ba degrees to prove it. She is, in 2001 she served as special consultant to the state Department Regarding reforms to the global fund to fight aids, tb and malaria. Supers also worked extensively on a wide range of health law issues including implementation of the International Health regulations, Pandemic Response and Infectious Disease control. And so we are looking forward to susan bringing a legal perspective here to the discussion. Next to susan wev
The World Health Organization has predicted that the ebola virus will infect 20,000 people in west afterwhat by november afterwhat by November Africa by november. The president of liberia spoke about whats being done to fight the disease in her country where an estimated 1500 people have died. She spoke by internet at a Georgetown University conference on ebola. After her remarks, a Panel Discussed the diseases Economic Impact in the african countries affected. Morning, everybody. [inaudible] director of the program here at georgetown and a longtime economic adviser to president sir i have sir leaf and others in the government of liberia, and i think we are ready to go. I know we have a connection. There we are. Good afternoon, madam president. Thank you very much for taking the time to be with us here this morning in georgetown. We have a crowd of a couple of hundred people here that are very appreciative of you taking the time to join us today. So, first, i just want to thank you for
A Health System is diffuse. What is the intervention . Nets, drugs, spraying. But in Health Systems, the intervention is diffuse. There are many possible courses of action. Think of credit claiming opportunities with a specific disease, there is a number of people treated or burden averted. But there it but it is hard to measure the functioning of a Health System in costs are easy to specify but for Health Systems, it is not. Induration, a particular program might end, but Health Systems never do. Donors are worried about these things. When it comes to advocacy, they look around the room and say, well, who else is engaged . Who is leading . Many nations pay some kind of lip service or make some. Nvestment in Health Systems but the answers to do much more of that. Ebola is a warning to us. It is a warning for a disease that is often fatal, that is relatively hard to trend. But as you can see, in crumbled states, in nonfunctioning Health Systems, it has gone viral. I mean it, in a litera
In addition to being conyers mayor, the mayor is the churchill factor. Thats incredibly nice of you. What did you learn from Winston Churchill about what people want in their leader . Well churchill, the guy made the most incredible series of mistakes. His early career was studied with disasters of one kind or another. But he always came back from them and he always stuck by what he believed. And actually, as you will discover in this book if you need to analyze all of his catastrophes, you can see how he was very often on to something. Oftentimes he simply got it wrong. The big takeoff from churchill was he had the big colossal moral strength and on a scale its hard for any of us to imagine. Yesterday i went to see the Aerospace Museum and we looked at that flyer built by orville and Wilbur Wright that flew 800 feet. Its incredible that only ten years after that flight Winston Churchill was getting up in contraptions of absolutely terrifying primitiveness made of basically canvas and
That the Laboratory System is strengthened, the capacity of our liberian military guys to do a job. So you feel confident that today you have, through the incident with the oversight of the Incident Management System you have access to sufficient ambulances and laboratories . You have the isolation and containment. You have the Case Investigation Contact Tracing teams, and the data coordination that that infrastructure is in place. It needs to be sustained and strengthened, and as you say within liberia itself, the biggest immediate challenge is montserrat county and monrovia proper, right . Thats correct. The capacity is there. Our response has reached optimum that we can respond effectively at any time. We can, every county has a wellbuilt Isolation Unit with the u. S. General and myself were in the last etu, second to the last etu where the results are. Every county is having its own ebola treatment unit. Thats the Case Management components out of it. So if there were any resurgenc