Carnegie Mellon University
Former US ambassador on global health, former assistant director general at the World Health Organization, and professor of global health at Carnegie Mellon University
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Jack Chow
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The New Ebola Plan President Obama plans to announce a new response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa today. We’ll discuss whether the plan goes far enough. And we talk with an emergency medical worker who’s in Liberia fighting the outbreak. International Medical Corps video from its ebola treatment unit in Liberia
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