dr. abramowitz. dr. abramowitz, you've been sending the liberian health factor in west africa and humanitarian response for over a decade. this means you have connected years and the fieldwork region, including gaffin now reaching of new guinea, the first area of the outbreak. can you provide us with some context for what is it about the situation in liberia, specifically that is made this crisis? >> sure. thank you for having me. it's really another to be your and i really applaud the efforts of everybody in this idea to put together an academic and governmental response as quickly as possible. as a cultural anthropologist, mike to start off with the story. this is coming from a friends of liberia dispatch released in late july 2014. during the visit to a family of ebola orphans, three little boys come a health care worker tracking cases is just way by the orphans uncle. before she was chased away, the uncle explained to the health care worker their mother had contract of ebola from aunt who had died. th

dr. abramowitz and that i'm going to give each panelist in on time to give some concluding, so we have a little bit of extra time. first, there are a lot of questions that are past that make me understand the people are wondering what does it mean to have a health response and what is the health system and who are these different people? i was wondering if professor abramowitz could speak a little bit to the liberian situation of who is who on the ground and how can we work together? >> sure. if i can add one other narrative that came out of somebody working working in liberian ministry of health last week. he wrote a note to a colleague of mine that i was talking to this weekend and he said just this past friday a man who had contracted ebola search for hospital and he had traveled to every treatment center in monrovia. they teach one he was turned away for lack of a bed. he then use public transportation to go to the ministry of health and social welfare and the ministry of health and social welfare had no assistance in no assistance and he waited for three hours for someone to help hi

dr. sharon abramowitz studied the liberian health sector. searching for normal inflow wake of the liberian war. and the school foreign service. and african studies program. dr. taylor's research centers on african politics and private-sector governments and political and economic reform. finally we have dr. james ham a hamayana from georgetown university. is recission choose aren't the political economy with particular interest in constraints to health as well as health policy. he also brings an insider knowledge to the panel in you gone the during the ebola outbreak in 2007. before we begin the discussion among the panelists. i will pose a question to each of the panelists to give us some context on their particular perspective beginning with sharon abramowitz. sharon abramowitz, you have been studying the health sector, this means we conducted years of field work in the region including guinea, the first epicenter of the ebola outbreak. in conflict affected regions of troy liberia. can you provide context for what is it about the situation