1) Sharon Abramowitz, PhD, Independent Consultant. Pending Research Affiliate with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey "Ebola's Assault on Women, Children, and Family Reproduction: An Introduction to the Issues"
2) David A. Schwartz, MD, MS Hyg, FCAP, Clinical Professor, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia "The West African Ebola Epidemic: Overview and Timeline"
3) Julienne Ngoundoung Anoko, PhD, MS, Universite Sorbonne, Paris, France, and Doug Henry, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas"Finding Flexibility Within Tradition in Guinea: Diffusing Community Crisis Through Ebola-focused Ethnography"
4) Adrienne Strong, MA, PhD Candidate, Departments of Anthropology, Washington University of St. Louis and University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and David A. Schwartz, MD, MS Hyg, FCAP, Clinical Professor, Medical College of Georgia, University of Augusta, Augusta, Georgia"Effects of the Ebola Epidemic on Health Care of Pregnant Women: Stigmatization With and Without Infection"
5) Gillian Burkhardt, MD and Elin Erland, MD. Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre, Barcelona, Spain"Ebola's Unintended Consequences: The Challenges of Managing Pregnant Ebola-suspected Women in Ebola Contexts"
6) Benjamin Black, MBBS, MSc, MRCOG and Ruth Kauffman, BSN, RN. Médecins Sans Frontières Operational Centre, Barcelona, Spain"Clinical Care for Pregnant Women in an Ebola Treatment Center"
7) Guirlene Frederic, UNICEF, Chief, Child Protection, Conakry, Guinea "The Care of Children and Orphans Affected by Ebola During the Response to the Disease in Guinea"
8) Jonah Lipton, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, London School of Economics, London, Great Britain"Taking 'Life Off Hold' During a Time of Crisis in Freetown, Sierra Leone"
9) Paul Farmer, PhD, MD, Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Regan Marsh, MD, MPH, and Kerry Deirberg, MD. Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Partners In Health, Boston, Massachusetts"Public Health Aspects of the Ebola Epidemic in Women and Children"
10) Veronica Fynn Bruey, LLM, BSc, MPH, LLB and PhD Candidate, Visiting Scholar, School of Law, University of Washington, Seattle "Maternal and Reproductive Rights: Ebola and the Law in Liberia"
11) Ramatou Ouedraogo, PhD, Laboratoire les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM), Bordeaux, France, and Veronica Gomez-Temesio, PhD, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France & Graduate Institute of Geneva, Switzerland"Between Safety, Fear, and Obligation of Care: Being Pregnant in a Guinean Ebola Treatment Unit"
12) Theresa Elizabeth Jones, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, International Rescue Committee, Monrovia, Liberia "Risk Without Recognition: The Experiences of Traditional Midwives and Birth Attendants Who Filled the Gap in the Time of Ebola"
13) Dr Edwige Adekambi Domingo, UNFPA, Conakry, Guinea "Ebola and Pregnancy in Guinea"
14) Sarah Paige, PhD, MPH, Co-Founder, Ebola Survivor Corps, Me
About the Author: David A. Schwartz, MD, MS Hyg, FCAP, has an educational background in Anthropology, Medicine, Public Health, Emerging Infections, Women's Health and Epidemiology. He sub-specializes in Obstetrical, Fetal, and Perinatal Pathology as well as Emerging Infections, and has a professional interest in reproductive health, and maternal and infant disease and death in both resource-rich and resource-poor countries. Dr. Schwartz has organized and directed large national and international investigations of health of women and children, obstetrical disease, perinatal pathology, and epidemiology for many government agencies including the CDC, NIH, and USAID, and has consulted and taught in these specialties in resource-poor nations. He has been a recipient of many grants, and was a Pediatric AIDS Foundation Scholar. He edited a newly-published book regarding anthropological and public health aspects of maternal morbidity and mortality in developing nations that was published in October, 2015 (Maternal Mortality: Risk Factors, Anthropological Perspectives, Prevalence in Developing Countries and Preventive Strategies for Pregnancy-Related Deaths), and was previously a co-editor of an award-winning 2-volume medical textbook on infectious diseases with Appleton-Lange Publishers (Pathology of Infectious Diseases. Volumes I and II). He is the editor of a 36-chapter text currently in progress for Springer, Maternal Health, Pregnancy-Related Morbidity and Death Among Indigenous Women of Mexico & Central America: An Anthropological, Epidemiological and Biomedical Approach. He has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed articles as well as 47 chapters in his specialty areas in the medical literature. Dr. Schwartz is an experienced editor, currently serving on the Editorial Boards of three major international journals, and is associate editor for one of them. He has previously taught at several universities, and is currently a clinical professor at the Medical College of Georgia. Dr. Schwartz has long experience at understanding and integrating the anthropological, biomedical, epidemiological, and public health aspects of emerging infectious diseases as they affect society, especially women and children. Both Drs. Schwartz and Abramowitz have recently been active in addressing aspects of the current global Zika virus situation.
Julienne N. Anoko, PhD, MS, is a social anthropologist (PhD) from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She completed her academic preparation (MS) in the areas of epidemiology and public health, and gender and health. For more than 15 years, she has been supporting several institutions (public administrations, NGOs, international development, and United Nations organizations) in addressing social norms and gender issues both during emergency outbreaks and into development programs for better efficiency and accountability. Between 2005 and 2014, Dr. Anoko supported the World Health Organization and UNICEF during the Ebola and Marburg outbreaks, as well as the H1N1 influenza pandemic in both developed and developing countries in Africa, America, and Europe. In 2015, she joined the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) in Guinea to coordinate, support, and leverage the Social Mobilization and Community Engagement pillar in order to implement interventions compatible with local contexts to gain community trust and participation into the overall response. Between 2015 and 2016, she was appointed as in-house social anthropologist of UNICEF in the Guinea-country Office to support the mainstreaming of social norms into both the Ebola emergency response and development programs. Dr. Anoko has published books and papers and contributed in developing several guidelines for United Nations agencies dealing with her areas of expertise. She had been featured in articles from NPR, National Geographic, The Washington Post, WHO, and others. She is recipient of the "Research and Innovation 2015 Award" for her engagement in the field during the West African Ebola epidemic from the French Red Cross Humanitarian Fund.
Sharon Abramowitz, PhD, is an independent consultant and former assistant professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Florida in Gainsville. She is currently pending as a research affiliate with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. As a medical anthropologist, Dr. Abramowitz has conducted research on community-based response to epidemics and pandemic events, Ebola, humanitarian intervention, mental health, gender-based violence, health sector transitions, and post-conflict reconstruction in West Africa since 2000. She is the author of Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War (University of Pennsylvania Press 2014), co-editor of Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015), and has authored many peer-reviewed articles in leading scientific journals. Presently, Dr. Abramowitz plays a leading role in social science's response to the West African Ebola epidemic, and is the principal investigator for the Ebola 100 Project, which is establishing a "history of the present" of humanitarian experiences during the Ebola outbreak. She also is conducting research on community-based responses to epidemic and pandemic events.