Post-Ebola reforms: Ample analysis, inadequate action

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 356, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Moon, Suerie ^a   Leigh, Jennifer ^b   Woskie, Liana ^b   Checchi, Francesco ^c   Dzau, Victor ^d   Fallah, Mosoka ^e   Fitzgerald, Gabrielle ^f   Garrett, Laurie ^g   Gostin, Lawrence ^h   Heymann, David L ⁱ   Katz, Rebecca ^j   Kickbusch, Ilona ^a   Morrison, J Stephen ^k   Piot, Peter ^c   Sands, Peter ^l   Sridhar, Devi ^m   Jha, Ashish K ⁿ  

^a GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d National Academy of Science   (United States)

^e National Public Health Institute   (Liberia)

^f Panorama Global   (United States)

^g Women and US Foreign Policy Program   (United States)

^h GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS   (United Kingdom)

^j Nuclear Threat Initiative   (United States)

^k CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (United States)

^l Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATION; KNOWLEDGE; MANDATORY REPORTING; NONHUMAN; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; TRAVEL; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMICS; HEALTH POLICY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

EID: 85010991020     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j280     Document Type: Article

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