Keeping Your Cool — Doing Ebola Research during an Emergency

Abstract

Two key international actors, Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF, or Doctors without Borders) and the World Health Organization (WHO), are testing an Ebola vaccine during the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in collaboration with the ministry of health (see map). They must act in a state of extreme uncertainty: the situation is evolving by the hour, information is hard to come by, and the ethical dilemmas and practical hurdles are abundant. And they are using slightly different approaches.Copyright ©2018 Massachussetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.