IDENTIFY. QUANTIFY. ELIMINATE.


OPERATION UNITED ASSISTANCE


Liberian soldiers attach fencing at an Ebola treatment unit being built in support of Operation United Assistance in Gbediah, Liberia, in December 2014. United Assistance was the DOD operation to provide command and control, logistics, training and engineering support to U.S. Agency for International Development-led efforts to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brien Vorhees, 55th Signal Company (Combat Camera))


to evolve over time as we come to under- stand hazards better, as we face new hazards and new crises.


Readiness really refers to being operationally ready to mount a response across a wide range of hazards, environments, and areas of different vulnerabilities and capacities.


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We have to be open to learning these les- sons. We learned the hard way that two gigantic networks that existed pre-Ebola weren’t able to work together optimally. We had the public health network, a lot of which I just referred to, but almost completely separate from that were the humanitarian networks that dealt with natural disasters and conflict situations. And so one of the big pieces of work that we did last fall, working with OCHA, was the development of what we call the L3 protocols for infectious hazards: a new set of common protocols that would


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stretch across the public health and emer- gency worlds to deal with major new outbreaks.


Army AL&T: Did you work directly with the U.S. Army on Ebola?


Aylward: Although I became involved in the Ebola response as far back as March [2014], most of that early work was at the headquarters levels. I spent almost all of 2015 and much of 2016 on the ground in West Africa. Consequently I [personally] had less to do with the U.S. Army on the ground in the early days, but my teams did work with the U.S. Army, especially around the planning and then building of the Ebola treatment centers in Liberia


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