Eric Starbuck, Save the Children Advisor on Child Health & Pandemic Preparedness, will speak about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the impact of the first cases in the U.S. and how the U.S. is responding to this health threat on Tuesday, November 25, at 6 pm in the Westport Library’s McManus Room. The program is free and open to the public. Save the Children is an organization involved in each of the three most affected countries for several years and has been substantially engaged in outbreak response work for the last several months.
Starbuck, MPH and DrPH, provides child health program design and other technical support to Save the Children offices and staff. He has played a lead role in Save the Children global pandemic influenza preparedness efforts since early 2006, and served as Public Health Advisor with the CORE Group on the Humanitarian Pandemic Preparedness initiative for three years. Prior to joining Save the Children in 1998, he served as a Fellow with USAID’s Child Survival and Health Grants Program. He began his work in international public health in 1981 as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal, managing the district-wide implementation of a program involving 320 community health workers and 12 health facilities and working for UNICEF/Nepal. He has served on the Board of Directors of the CORE Child Survival Collaborations and Resources Group from 2001 to 2006, and since 2012.