Ebola Outbreak: Expert Answers to Common Questions

Here’s an expert from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health answering some of the most common questions that people have about the Ebola Virus, Ebola Virus Disease, and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. In these video clips, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed addresses ways people in the United States can stay safe, why health experts are confident about the precautions recommended for Ebola prevention, and why controlling the outbreaks in West Africa is important to protecting the rest of the world from the disease. Dr. El-Sayed’s research focuses on the social production of health, ethnic and socioeconomic health inequalities, and complex systems approaches in social epidemiology. He earned his medical degree at Columbia University as a Soros Fellow, as well as a DPhil in Population Health at Oxford University, where I was a Rhodes Scholar (Michigan and Oriel, 2009). I am a 2007 graduate of the University of Michigan, where I completed a Bachelor of Science with Highest Distinction in Biology and Political Science as the top graduate in the College of Literature, Sicence, and the Arts.