A small team at a small agency was at the center of rapid vaccine development and distribution
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, known as BARDA, isn’t a household name. But it was at the center of federal efforts to get…
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Some Homeland Security employees are worried about their exposure to the Ebola virus. Many of them work at the Transportation Security Administration and…
Over the coming weeks and months, many federal workers and military personnel will be involved in the fight to contain, then isolate and eliminate the…
The Ebola outbreak has forced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention into overdrive. About 100 staff members are in West Africa. Hundreds of other employees are working at the agency’s emergency operations center in Atlanta. Still more are working stateside to protect Americans from Ebola or just picking up extra work so their colleagues can focus on the disease. Ted Pestorius is a management officer for the CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, where his focus…