In August 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola outbreak in west Africa a public health emergency of international concern, and the world scrambled to respond.
The WHO received widespread criticism, and it was concluded that better preparedness and a faster, more coordinated response could have prevented most of the 11 000 deaths directly attributed to Ebola .
In the aftermath of this collective failure, numerous reports were published reviewing what went wrong and how infectious disease outbreaks should be better managed.
In this podcast, Suerie Moon, from the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, describes what went wrong, and why WHO's response has so far been lacking.
Read the full analysis:
http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.j280
