About the Authors

International Ebola Response Team

The International Ebola Response Team comprises the authors listed in this article in alphabetical order

Junerlyn Agua-Agum

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Archchun Ariyarajah

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Bruce Aylward

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Luke Bawo

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Monrovia, Liberia

Pepe Bilivogui

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Conakry, Guinea

Isobel M. Blake

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Richard J. Brennan

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Amy Cawthorne

Affiliation World Health Organization, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Eilish Cleary

Affiliation World Health Organization, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Peter Clement

Affiliation World Health Organization, Monrovia, Liberia

Roland Conteh

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Anne Cori

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Foday Dafae

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Benjamin Dahl

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Conakry, Guinea

Jean-Marie Dangou

Affiliation World Health Organization, Conakry, Guinea

Boubacar Diallo

Affiliation World Health Organization, Conakry, Guinea

Christl A. Donnelly

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Ilaria Dorigatti

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Christopher Dye

dyec@who.int (CD); neil.ferguson@imperial.ac.uk (NMF); christophe.fraser@well.ox.ac.uk (CF)

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Tim Eckmanns

Affiliations World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Mosoka Fallah

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Monrovia, Liberia

Neil M. Ferguson

dyec@who.int (CD); neil.ferguson@imperial.ac.uk (NMF); christophe.fraser@well.ox.ac.uk (CF)

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Lena Fiebig

Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Christophe Fraser

dyec@who.int (CD); neil.ferguson@imperial.ac.uk (NMF); christophe.fraser@well.ox.ac.uk (CF)

Affiliations MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Oxford Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Tini Garske

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Lice Gonzalez

Affiliation World Health Organization, Monrovia, Liberia

Esther Hamblion

Affiliation World Health Organization, Monrovia, Liberia

Nuha Hamid

Affiliation World Health Organization, Monrovia, Liberia

Sara Hersey

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Wes Hinsley

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Amara Jambei

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Thibaut Jombart

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

David Kargbo

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Sakoba Keita

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Conakry, Guinea

Michael Kinzer

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Conakry, Guinea

Fred Kuti George

Affiliation World Health Organization, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Beatrice Godefroy

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Giovanna Gutierrez

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Niluka Kannangarage

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Harriet L. Mills

Affiliations MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Thomas Moller

Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Conakry, Guinea

Sascha Meijers

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Yasmine Mohamed

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Oliver Morgan

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Gemma Nedjati-Gilani

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Emily Newton

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Pierre Nouvellet

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Tolbert Nyenswah

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Monrovia, Liberia

William Perea

Affiliation World Health Organization, Conakry, Guinea

Devin Perkins

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Steven Riley

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Guenael Rodier

Affiliation World Health Organization, Conakry, Guinea

Marc Rondy

Affiliation Epiconcept, Conakry, Guinea

Maria Sagrado

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Camelia Savulescu

Affiliation Epiconcept, Conakry, Guinea

Ilana J. Schafer

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Dirk Schumacher

Affiliations World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Seyler

Affiliation Epiconcept, Conakry, Guinea

Anita Shah

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Maria D. Van Kerkhove

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

C. Samford Wesseh

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Monrovia, Liberia

Zabulon Yoti

Affiliation World Health Organization, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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