An advance team from Boston-based Partners In Health heads for Ebola-stricken Liberia to lay the groundwork for a new push against the virulent disease in rural areas of that country and Sierra Leone. Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine; and Joia Mukherjee, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are quoted. Rajesh Panjabi, instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is mentioned.
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