Experts Guide: Ebola crisis
Hospitals and Health Policy
Sam Richardson, assistant professor of Public Affairs
Richardson can address whether or not US hospitals are prepared to deal with Ebola cases and incentives playing into the fact that there is not an effective treatment for the disease.
Ebola Immunity and The Math of the Outbreak
Lauren Meyers, professor of Integrative Biology
Meyers is working to understand how Ebola may be silently immunizing the population. She can discuss her findings and also how outbreaks such as Ebola are governed by complex math.
Terry Jones, assistant professor of Nursing
Jones has been a nurse for over 25 years and has served in a variety of roles ranging from critical care staff nurse to Chief Nurse Executive in a large academic medical center and public hospital.
Linda Yoder, associate professor of Nursing
Yoder is plugged into the local community of nurses and nursing administrators as well as professional nursing associations. She can speak from experience in hospitals and clinics.
Alexandra Garcia, associate professor of Nursing
Garcia teaches students how to properly use equipment to protect from infection on the front lines of health care. She says that an emergency such as the Ebola outbreak highlights how important it is to have procedures in place all the time.
Karen Johnson, assistant professor of Nursing
Johnson is helping nursing students evaluate the Ebola outbreak in Dallas, examine the systems at play and evaluate how nurses can contribute to the clear communication of information in a health crisis.
History of Medicine in Africa
Abena Osseo-Assare assistant professor of History
Abena Osseo-Asare is a historian of medicine and science in Africa. She offers her view on the need for equitable distribution of Ebola treatments.
Media and Health Communication
Jay Bernhardt, director of the Center for Health Communication
Bernhardt is former director of the National Center for Health Marketing at the CDC. He can evaluate the way media is covering the crisis and how the CDC, state agencies, and public health officials are responding.
Matthew McGlone, associate professor of Communication Studies
matthew_mcglone@ mail.utexas.edu, 512-471-1920
McGlone argues that efforts to fight the spread of Ebola could be improved with changes to health and risk communication.
Jaquelin Dudley, professor of Molecular Biosciences
Dudley’s expertise is the study of animal viruses, including those that infect humans, such as Ebola.
Sara Sawyer, associate professor of Molecular Biosciences
Sawyer can speak about emerging human viral epidemics including Ebola and virus evolution over time.
Connect with UT Austin’s Center for Infectious Disease at 512-471-1266.