Ebola as a power audit: A physician's reflection on global health equity from the West Africa outbreak
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MarkAlain Déry, DO, MPH, FACOI
Summary
Dr. MarkAlain Dery reflects on his experience responding to the 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, where he served as medical director of an Ebola treatment center and later worked in clinical epidemiology with the WHO. He draws parallels between that outbreak and the current one, using both to examine systemic failures in global health equity — arguing that Ebola outbreaks function as a "power audit" that exposes which lives are valued and which are neglected by the global health system.
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· 3 pulledI still remember the silence of doors not opening.
On paper, the job was simple: Find cases, get them i
Ebola isn't just a virus: It's a power audit.
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