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Ebola/epidemiology Intro Reading

not an expert in ebola? Organizers already posted some intro reading at event website:
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/hack/participants
There will also be technical & expert volunteers onsite & remotely to help.
If you want more reading/viewing here are some other links (I'm one of the technical volunteers):

I will bring my epidemiology textbooks to Harvard on Friday & Sunday (and maybe Saturday) which contain case studies & simple epidemic models (mostly differential equations but also object-oriented / individual-level simulations)... although I don't recommend trying to learn epidemiology from scratch for this hack-a-thon, u may get ideas from chapter headings or case studies or if u are fluent in differential equation models you'll be able to more easily understand the books or if u already studied epidemiology then these books can serve as refresher/reference. U can either read them next to me or "phone pic/scan" any interesting pages next to me.

In terms of "intro reading" to Ebola, here is where I would personally start (CDC, WHO, NIH) and these sites tend to be written for general readers (I've only browsed these so far but I plan to read them more thoroughly myself in preparation):

CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/
NIH: http://www.nih.gov/health/ebola.htm
WHO: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/en/

In terms of relief/field situation, MSF & PIH have good websites. also here is one additional link for "intro reading" in terms of another major healthcare provider for Ebola West Africa, Partners In Health (Paul Farmer is a major international Ebola advisor right now and former PIH leader Dr. Jim Kim is currently the new & different/non-banker/doctor World Bank pres): http://www.pih.org/priority-programs/ebola?subsource=homepage_take_action

In terms of a webcast about the field situation in West Africa as viewed by one of the primary health providers (MSF), I would use MSF/Doctors-Without-Borders recent crisis update webcast on Ebola:
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ebola-crisis-webcast

Pbs frontline episode on ebola http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ebola-outbreak/

On 11/9/14 60 minutes had a good 20 minute segment on ebola. Here it is: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-ebola-hot-zone-liberia/

Resources (Data & Info & Maps) suggested by PubMed / National Library of Medicine:
http://healthmap.org/ebola/#timeline
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/ebola_2014.html

Also, if you are looking for a specific type of ebola background source we may be able to help you through this discussion/comment thread.

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