WFPHA newsletter special Ebola issue

The December 2014 newsletter of the World Federation of Public Health Associations is now available and this special issue on the Ebola Outbreak includes the following items:

1. Overview of the Outbreak
   • – Timeline
   • – Mapping
   • – Treatments
2. Message from WFPHA President
   • – Let us use evidence based facts over fear in managing the Ebola Epidemic
3. Joint WFPHA/AFPHA Statement on Ebola Outbreak
4. Reflection on a successful containment
   • Nigeria’s Public Health Association and the Ebola epidemic
5. WFPHA Members response to the Ebola Outbreak
   • African Federation of Public Health Associations & Ethiopian Public Health Association
   • Public Health Association of Australia
   • African Federation of Medical Students' Associations
   • Public Health Foundation of Bangladesh
   • Burkina Faso Public Health Association
   • Cameroon Public Health Association
   • International Federation of Medical Students' Associations
   • Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health
   • Spanish Association of Public Health and Health Administration
6. World Health Organization
7. African Union
8. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
9. Medecins sans Frontiers
10. International Pharmaceutical Federation
11. International Association of National Public Health Institutes
12. Comparative from other outbreaks – why is this one so much bigger?
13. The need for an Anthropological viewpoint?
14. Conclusion & Reflection
15. Selected publications & websites & courses