Frontline Health Workers Fight Ebola
Courtesy International Medical Corps, Stuart Sia
More than 500 health workers tragically lost their lives to Ebola and hundreds more were infected with the virus while battling the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014 and 2015. Throughout the epidemic, the Frontline Health Workers Coalition sought to focus attention on addressing the needs of local frontline health workers in the region, as well as the need for focused investment on building a resilient and sustainable, locally led frontline health workforce able to detect, report and respond to threats like Ebola and deliver essential, lifesaving health services.
Ebola-Related Resources from the Frontline Health Workers Coalition
- BLOG: As Ebola Transmissions End in Guinea, What about the Heroes Left Behind? December 2015
- BLOG: As Spirits Rise in Sierra Leone, Technology Offers More than Ebola Recovery, November 2015
- Frontline Health Workers Coalition Statement on Ebola to 68th World Health Assembly, May 2015
- Fighting Ebola: Being on the frontline of the fight, US State Department podcast, March 2015
- Cost of Scaling up the Health Workforce in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Amid the Ebola Epidemic: FHWC Costing Analysis; Press Release, March 2015
- Frontline Health Workers Coalition Urges World Health Organization Executive Board to Put Frontline Health Workers at Center of Ebola Discussions, January 2015
- More support needed for local health workers responding to Ebola, advocates say, Humanosphere, January 2015
- The Ebola Epidemic: The Keys To Success For The International Response, US Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing, Coalition recommendations included in IntraHealth International President & CEO Pape Gaye's testimony, December 2014
- Frontline Health Workers Coalition Policy Recommendations: Building a Resilient, Sustainable Health Workforce to Respond to Ebola and Other Future Threats, November 2014, VIDEO, December 2014
- Q&A with Dr. Melvin Korkor, Physician, Lecturer and Ebola Survivor from Bong Country, Liberia, September 2014
- BLOG: Saving Lives Starts with Frontline Health Workers, Congressional Roundtable Told, September 2014
- Coalition Statement: Health Workers on the Frontlines of Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, August 2014
- BLOG: Health workers pay the ultimate price in fight against Ebola, July 2014