Good evening everyone. Can anyone hear me well . Good. I am mary mclaughlin, a program coded with the Smithsonian Associates and i like to welcome you to what is promised to be very perfect halloween evening on the crucible of the victorian surgery. Before we begin risley like us everyone to check their cell phones and make sure they are silenced. Im also like to let you know that this program is being filled by cspan to be aired at a later date, so if youve enjoyed tonight program and would like it again, or if you think your friend like to see it, you should check over the next few weeks cspan and see if it is up. Sometimes it takes a couple of weeks for them to run a show and other times it can be one or two months. So its worth checking periodically. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker doctor lindsey fitzharris. She tells me as a little girl shes to drag her grandmother trump cemetery to cemetery so that she could hunt ghosts. So some thought she was obsessed with death from
Know that this program is being filmed by cspan to be aired at a later date, so if you enjoy tonights program and would like to see it again or if you think your friends would like to see it, we should check periodically over the next few weeks to cspan. Org and see if its up. Sometimes it takes a couple of weeks for them to run a show and other times it could be one or two months, so its worth checking periodically. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker, dr. Lindsey fitzharris. Dr. Fitzharris tells me as a little girl she used to drag her grandmother fromet cemetery to cemetery so that she could hunt ghosts. Though some thought she was obsessed with death from an early age, she like ared to think she was simply fascinated with the t past and with the people who lived there. Thus began her lifelong on to session with history. On to session with history. Dr. Fitzharris received a doctorate in the fields of science, med kin and technology from the university of oxford. In 2010 she w
It was exciting so thank you to steve in particular for organizing that segment. F a forn what are the implications of what weve heard this morning and particularly what are the implications as we look ahead to what can be done . And so im really excited about group that we have here. And let me just briefly introduce the panelists going across from my left. First is superkemp. Susan kemp. She is the Deputy Director of the Oneil Institute at georgetown university. Susan is trained in law, Public Health and business and holds jd, mp h m ba degrees to prove it. She is, in 2001 she served as special consultant to the state Department Regarding reforms to the global fund to fight aids, tb and malaria. Supers also worked extensively on a wide range of health law issues including implementation of the International Health regulations, Pandemic Response and Infectious Disease control. And so we are looking forward to susan bringing a legal perspective here to the discussion. Next to susan wev
The World Health Organization has predicted that the ebola virus will infect 20,000 people in west afterwhat by november afterwhat by November Africa by november. The president of liberia spoke about whats being done to fight the disease in her country where an estimated 1500 people have died. She spoke by internet at a Georgetown University conference on ebola. After her remarks, a Panel Discussed the diseases Economic Impact in the african countries affected. Morning, everybody. [inaudible] director of the program here at georgetown and a longtime economic adviser to president sir i have sir leaf and others in the government of liberia, and i think we are ready to go. I know we have a connection. There we are. Good afternoon, madam president. Thank you very much for taking the time to be with us here this morning in georgetown. We have a crowd of a couple of hundred people here that are very appreciative of you taking the time to join us today. So, first, i just want to thank you for
A Health System is diffuse. What is the intervention . Nets, drugs, spraying. But in Health Systems, the intervention is diffuse. There are many possible courses of action. Think of credit claiming opportunities with a specific disease, there is a number of people treated or burden averted. But there it but it is hard to measure the functioning of a Health System in costs are easy to specify but for Health Systems, it is not. Induration, a particular program might end, but Health Systems never do. Donors are worried about these things. When it comes to advocacy, they look around the room and say, well, who else is engaged . Who is leading . Many nations pay some kind of lip service or make some. Nvestment in Health Systems but the answers to do much more of that. Ebola is a warning to us. It is a warning for a disease that is often fatal, that is relatively hard to trend. But as you can see, in crumbled states, in nonfunctioning Health Systems, it has gone viral. I mean it, in a litera