"Containing Ebola Outbreaks: Lessons for Bio-security and H1N1 (Swine Flu)"
Learn how Africans and the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network at the World Health Organization respond to outbreaks of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. What we learn from the containment of this deadly disease may help us respond to a bioterrorist attack or outbreaks of new diseases such as H1N1 (swine flu).
View video of Barry Hewlett's presentation.
Barry Hewlett
WSU Vancouver Professor of Anthropology
Barry Hewlett is Professor of Anthropology at WSU Vancouver. He has conducted research in central Africa since 1973, and was the first medical anthropologist to be invited by the World Health Organization to help control Ebola outbreaks.
Hewlett is the author of:
- "Intimate Fathers: The Nature and Context of Aka Pygmy Paternal Infant Care
- "Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods" (edited with Michael Lamb)
- "Father–Child Relations: Cultural and Biosocial Contexts"
- "Ebola, Culture and Politics: The Anthropology of an Emerging Disease" (co-authored with Bonnie Hewlett)
- "Human Behavior and Cultural Context of Disease Control" (edited with Joan Koss-Chioino)
Hewlett earned a Ph.D. from the University of California-Santa Barbara in 1987 and has had appointments at Southern Oregon University, Tulane University and Oregon State University.