This panel discussion begins with Mauricio Ferri, who spent several weeks as a doctor in Kenema this summer, discussing his experiences of the impact of Ebola on the local society and his reflections on the international response. The commentators will introduce perspectives drawn from their work on global public health and African history, and the discussion will then be opened to the general public.
Speakers:
Mauricio Ferri, Intensive Care Specialist
Cristobal Silva, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and scholar of colonial epidemiology
Megan Vaughan, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center at City University of New York and a historian of Africa and of colonialism
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia and a scholar of Global Health and Public Health and Infectious Disease
Free and open to the public. First come, first seated.