Release Date:
Thursday, September 11, 2014
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Subcommittee (Chairman Harkin)*
Time and Location: 2:30 p.m., in Room SH-216 of the Hart Senate Office Building
Agenda: Ebola in West Africa: A Global Challenge and Public Health Threat
Witnesses: Panel I
Beth P. Bell, MD, MPH
Director
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA
Anthony S. Fauci, MD
Director
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
Robin Robinson, PhD
Director
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response
United States Department of Health and Human Services
Washington D.C.
Panel II
Kent Brantly, MD
Former Medical Director
Samaritan’s Purse Ebola Care Center in Monrovia, Liberia
Ebola Survivor
Fort Worth, Texas
Ishmael Alfred Charles
Program Manager, Sierra Leone
Healey International Relief Foundation
Freetown, Sierra Leone
*This hearing is being held jointly with the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
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