This K4DD Ebola Summary aims to signpost FCDO and others to the latest relevant evidence and discourse regarding the ongoing Ebola Virus Disease outbreak.
This summary provides an overview of key points on what’s new, added value of new evidence and implications and is structured around the following topics drawn from the UK government’s health and care research and development framework for pandemic preparedness, prevention and response:
- Cross-cutting: risk communication and community engagement, continuity of essential health services, equity of
the response. - Understand: pathogen emergence, transmission dynamics, biological characterisation, clinical characterisation.
- Prevent: development and evaluation of vaccines
- Detect: development and evaluation of diagnostics, surveillance
- Respond: development and evaluation of therapeutics, case management, infection prevention and control
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