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  • Implementation of guidelines, officially

    This is everything that the World Health Organization’s Handbook for Guideline Development says about implementation.  Implementation of a guideline should be taken into account right from the beginning of the guideline development. Implementation is generally the responsibility of national or subnational groups, which explains why their participation in guideline development is critical. WHO headquarters and regional…

    Aboard the USS Bowfin (Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States of America). Personal collection.
  • Lessons learned from Ebola

    This is the first in a series of five blog posts reflecting on what is at stake in how we learn lessons from the Ebola crisis that erupted in 2014 and continued in 2015. A new blog post will be published each morning this week (subscribe here). The unprecedented complexity and scale of the current Ebola…

    Humanitarian Health Lessons Learned: Ebola