Video chat highlights Ebola response, lessons learned

By the Office of Communications on May 8, 2015, 1:45 p.m.

Raphael Frankfurter, a 2013 Princeton graduate and executive director of the nonprofit group Wellbody Alliance, participated in a live video chat Thursday, May 7, to discuss the group's response to Ebola in Sierra Leone and the lessons learned from the outbreak.

Frankfurter spoke with João Biehl, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology and co-director of Princeton's Program in Global Health and Health Policy. The conversation was hosted by Elisabeth Donahue, associate dean for public and external affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Frankfurter and Biehl are panelists at the upcoming Princeton-Fung Global Forum focused on "Modern Plagues: Lessons Learned from the Ebola Crisis." For more information on the forum, visit the forum website.

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