UC Berkeley Public Health

Dr. Joe Griffin, executive director of Youth ALIVE! and Impact Fellow at UC Berkeley Public Health, turned his personal experiences with community violence into a lifelong mission after a public health course transformed his worldview. Today, he bridges grassroots advocacy and academia with the G-VITAL Institute, which will train frontline workers to interrupt gun violence through community-led solutions.

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The science of de-escalation Dr. Joe Griffin, executive director of the violence prevention program Youth ALIVE!, on healing communities and interrupting urban violence.

In a Q&A, UC Berkeley Public Health infectious disease expert Charlie Whittaker discusses the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.

Said Whittaker: "The first thing worth saying about this outbreak is that it’s already the third largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded.

And it started that way, which is the worrying part. For an outbreak to be that big the moment we notice it means the virus had been spreading quietly for some time before anyone recognised what was happening."

He warns that the specific Bundibugyo strain lacks the advanced vaccines and treatments available for other variants. However, the risk to the American public remains very low due to the virus's non-airborne transmission and the effectiveness of established containment protocols.

Read more: https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/articles/news/commentary/how-worried-should-you-be-about-ebola

How worried should you be about Ebola? Infectious disease expert Dr. Charles Whittaker on how public health can stop a pandemic.