Global Management of Infectious Disease After Ebola

The 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa shocked the world with its devastation and its rapid migration to multiple continents. As the systems meant to respond to this sort of epidemic failed, the disease exposed not just weaknesses in international infectious disease surveillance and management, but the failures of governments, humanitarian organizations, and international institutions to handle the legal, ethical, and economic questions that arose with an event of this scale. Global Management of Infectious Disease After Ebola unites the insights of Ebola's first responders with those the world's foremost experts in law, economics, vaccine development, and global migration to identify missed opportunities from the Ebola crisis -- and to apply these lessons to emerging infectious disease threats. Framed with critical discussions of both the global health financing infrastructures that precipitated the response and the ethical and human rights dilemmas that resulted from it, this volume is much more than postmortem to an outbreak: it is a vital, sometimes damning examination of where we've been and where we're going in the face of emerging infectious diseases.

Sam F. Halabi is Scholar at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, and Associate Dean for Faculty, The University of Tulsa College of Law. Lawrence O. Gostin is University Professor and the founding Linda D. & Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law; Faculty Director, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University; and Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law & Human Rights. Jeffrey S. Crowley is Distinguished Scholar and Program Director, National HIV/AIDS Initiative, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University.