United Nations Academic Impact | May 9, 2016
Read the PublicationA UN High-Level Panel appointed 2 April 2015 by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated in its 25 January 2016 report titled Protecting Humanity from Future Health Crises: Report of the High-level Panel on the Global Response to Health Crises that, The Ebola outbreak in West Africa was a preventable tragedy. If the outbreak had been detected faster, and concerted international action had been mounted more rapidly, the spread of the disease could have been contained, and thousands of lives could have been saved.