Public health impact of the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa: seizing opportunities for the future

Affiliations

¹ Department of Public Health, Gamal University of Conakry, Conakry, Guinea.
² Woman and Child Health Research Centre, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
³ Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁴ Department of Parasitology-Mycology, Gamal University of Conakry, Conakry, Guinea.
⁵ Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
⁶ Health Policy Unit, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.

Alexandre Delamou et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2017.

. 2017 Mar 16;2(2):e000202.

doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000202. eCollection 2017.

¹ Department of Public Health, Gamal University of Conakry, Conakry, Guinea.
² Woman and Child Health Research Centre, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
³ Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁴ Department of Parasitology-Mycology, Gamal University of Conakry, Conakry, Guinea.
⁵ Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
⁶ Health Policy Unit, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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