Subcommittee Hearing: Global Efforts to Fight Ebola - September 17, 2014

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House Committee on Foreign Affairs - Subcommittee Hearing: Global Efforts to Fight Ebola

2172 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 | Sep 17, 2014 10:00am to 1:00pm

Chairman Smith on the hearing: “This latest outbreak of the Ebola virus has far outpaced all previous outbreaks.  Because of various challenges heretofore unseen, such as urban infections, cross-border transmissions and increasing infections and deaths of health care workers, the current outbreak is expanding exponentially.  This hearing will examine the problems faced by the global coalition to fight Ebola. We will hear directly from the National Institutes of Health, the FDA and an American doctor who contracted and survived Ebola, and other witnesses.”

Witnesses

Panel I

Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
Director
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
[full text of statement]

Luciana Borio, M.D.
Director
Office of Counterterrorism and Emerging Threats
Office of the Chief Scientist
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
[full text of statement]

The Honorable Nancy Lindborg
Assistant Administrator
Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance
U.S. Agency for International Development
[full text of statement]

Beth P. Bell, M.D.
Director
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
[full text of statement]

Panel II

Kent Brantly, M.D.
Medical Missionary
Samaritan’s Purse
(Survivor of Ebola)
[full text of statement]
[truth in testimony form]

Chinua Akukwe, M.D.
Chair
Africa Working Group
National Academy of Public Administration
[full text of statement]
[truth in testimony form]

Mr. Ted Alemayhu
Founder & Executive Chairman
US Doctors for Africa
[full text of statement]
[truth in testimony form]

Dougbeh Chris Nyan, M.D.
Director of the Secretariat
Diaspora Liberian Emergency Response Task Force on the Ebola Crisis
[full text of statement]
[truth in testimony form]