The escalating Ebola crisis affects us all, and has shown a need for greater cooperation in developing public health communication and strategies.  On October 2, 2014 (important to note this is a Webinar THURSDAY) 1 PM EST, the American Anthropological Association will be hosting a virtual event panel discussing the role anthropologists play in not only research, but infrastructure and policy, in light of the escalating Ebola outbreak in western Africa. The panel will include Adia Benton, Robert Hahn, Jacklyn Lacey, and Michael McGovern; with Julie Livingston as the acting moderator. We will also be trying a new format for this webinar: tapping into Google Hangout On the Air. We will be streaming the event live on YouTube, where you will be able to interact with the panelists directly through comment submission. Come be a part of this important conversation and technological experiment. Robert A. Hahn has served as an epidemiologist at the CDC since 1986 and is a member of the Senior Biomedical Research Service. He received his doctorate in anthropology at Harvard University and his masters of public health in epidemiology from the University of Washington. He is the author of Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective and co-editor of Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society.   Adia Benton is a medical anthropologist with interests in science and technology studies, and political and legal anthropology in sub-Saharan Africa (Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Mozambique). Her research in medical anthropology includes work on HIV/AIDS, essential surgical care, race and DNA ancestry, post-conflict development, humanitarianism and gender violence. Jacklyn Lacey works at the American Museum of Natural History as the African and Pacific Ethnology Curatorial Associate. Her focus has been upon historical and (bio)medical anthropology of East Africa since her undergraduate work at Sarah Lawrence, with subsequent study of African linguistics at Harvard. She worked as an HIV/AIDS educator, tester and counselor for over 7 years, as well as a lab researcher, a pharmacy technician and a health educator on DEBI Interventions. Mike McGovern is a political anthropologist who works in West Africa and uses a variety of sources from kinship idioms to the aesthetics of state-sponsored folklore to try to understand postcolonial states within the arc of longer historical trajectories. He has taught anthropology at Yale and was also the West Africa Project Director of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank that analyzes the causes of armed conflict.

• published: 29 Sep 2014
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