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Science in emergencies: UK lessons from Ebola inquiry

Inquiry

The Ebola epidemic exposed the UK's lack of readiness for an infectious disease emergency, the Science and Technology Committee has warned in its report. The Government must ensure that it is better prepared to mobilise scientific expertise and manufacture a vaccine in future.

Reports, special reports and government responses

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2nd Report - Science in emergencies: UK lessons from Ebola
Inquiry Science in emergencies: UK lessons from Ebola inquiry
HC 469
Report
Response to this report
Science in Emergencies: UK lessons from Ebola
Cm 9236
Government Response

Oral evidence transcripts

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24 November 2015
Inquiry Science in emergencies: UK lessons from Ebola inquiry
Witnesses Dr Edward Sykes, Senior Press Manager, Science Media Centre, Professor Paul Cosford, Director for Health Protection and Medical Director, Lily Makurah, Ebola Screening and Returning Workers Scheme Programme Manager, Public Health England, and Dr Oliver Johnson, Programme Director, King's Sierra Leone Partnership; Professor Sir Mark Walport, Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Government Office for Science, Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, and Brigadier Timothy Hodgetts, Medical Director, Defence Medical Services Jane Ellison MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health, and Campbell McCafferty, Director of Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office
Oral Evidence
20 October 2015
Inquiry Science in emergencies: UK lessons from Ebola inquiry
Witnesses Professor Tom Solomon, Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Professor Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and Professor George Griffin, Former Chair, Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens; Dr Ripley Ballou, GSK Vaccines Research and Development Centre, Rockville Maryland, Professor Adrian Hill, The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, and Professor Trudie Lang, The Global Health Network, University of Oxford; Dr Jeremy Farrar, Wellcome Trust, and Professor Chris Whitty, Professor of Public and International Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Oral Evidence
Public Health England (EME0019)
Ministry of Defence (EME0020)
Department of Health (EME0021)

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