Research Catalog

Title

Integrating clinical research into epidemic response : the Ebola experience / Gerald Keusch, Keith McAdam, Patricia A. Cuff, Michelle Mancher, and Emily R. Busta, editors ; Committee on Clinical Trials During the 2014--2015 Ebola Outbreak, Board on Global Health, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Health and Medicine Division, a report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.

Author

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Clinical Trials During the 2014-2015 Ebola Outbreak, author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Publication

• Wasington, DC : National Academies Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Keusch, Gerald
• McAdam, Keith P. W. J.
• Cuff, Patricia A.
• Mancher, Michelle
• Busta, Emily R.

Description

xxvi 316 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in western Africa was the longest and most deadly Ebola epidemic in history, resulting in 28,616 cases and 11,310 deaths in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The Ebola virus has been known since 1976, when two separate outbreaks were identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and South Sudan (then Sudan). However, because all Ebola outbreaks prior to that in West Africa in 2014-2015 were relatively isolated and of short duration, little was known about how to best manage patients to improve survival, and there were no approved therapeutics or vaccines. When the World Heath Organization declared the 2014-2015 epidemic a public health emergency of international concern in August 2014, several teams began conducting formal clinical trials in the Ebola affected countries during the outbreak. Integrating Clinical Research into Epidemic Response: The Ebola Experience assesses the value of the clinical trials held during the 2014-2015 epidemic and makes recommendations about how the conduct of trials could be improved in the context of a future international emerging or re-emerging infectious disease events"--Publisher's description.

Subjects

• Clinical trials > Africa, West
• Ebola virus disease > Treatment > Africa, West
• Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola > drug therapy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- Conducting clinical research during an epidemic -- Assessment of therapeutic trials -- Assessment of vaccine trials -- Strengthening capacity for response and research -- Engaging communities in research and response -- Facilitating international coordination and collaboration -- Appendices. Study approach and methods -- Clinical trial designs -- Ethical principles for research with human subjects -- Biographical sketches of committee members and staff.

ISBN

• 9780309457767
• 0309457769

OCLC

• ocn989056837
• 989056837
• SCSB-8797199

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries