As the international aid community grappled with the Ebola crisis in West Africa in October, the United States went a step further in its fraught strategy to contain the disease by designating an Ebola response coordinator.
On Oct. 17, U.S. President Barack Obama appointed Ron Klain as his “Ebola czar.”
With a background in law and politics, Klain manages the U.S. response to the virus. But what does the role mean for development professionals working on the ground to contain the disease?
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Jeff Tyson@jtyson21
Jeff is a former global development reporter for Devex. Based in Washington, D.C., he covers multilateral affairs, U.S. aid, and international development trends. He has worked with human rights organizations in both Senegal and the U.S., and prior to joining Devex worked as a production assistant at National Public Radio. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations and French from the University of Rochester.
