Wendy Taylor, Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact, USAID

Workers on the front lines battling Ebola face a lot of dangers. One of the biggest? Simply taking off their protective suits at the end of the day. It’s a multi- step process with no margin for error. To combat this and other logistical problems, the U.S. Agency for International Development launched what it calls the “Fighting Ebola Grand Challenge.” It solicited designs and innovations from all over the world. Wendy Taylor, director of USAID’s Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to parse the challenge’s results.

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