BBC | “Ebola outbreak: UN peacekeepers sent to DR Congo”
The BBC interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the Department of Epidemiology, about the current Ebola disease outbreak in Africa.
The BBC interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the Department of Epidemiology and the Gordon–Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health, about the course of the current Ebola disease outbreak in Central Africa.
"This issue of trust is so critical right now; we can do anything in terms of funding and resources to the outbreak, but what's going to really control it is having the right people on the ground: those local healthcare workers, the people the community really trusts, ” said Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. “With all the conflict that’s happening there, all the violence that’s happening there, it is much harder, so I really feel for these healthcare workers who are out there with their lives on the line.”
