IDENTIFY. QUANTIFY. ELIMINATE.


A PLACE TO GRIEVE IN SAFETY


A safe burial site for Ebola victims in Freetown, Sierra Leone. To marshal a diverse coalition of international partners to action, Aylward laid out a straightforward goal to slow the outbreak: get 70 percent of dead bodies buried, and 70 percent of infected people into medical isolation, within 60 days. Prompt, safe burial is important because the Ebola virus can be transmitted to family members preparing a victim’s body for burial. (U.N. photo by Ari Gaitanis)


So we’ve got to be very careful about just saying, “Oh, it’s unknown.” We can build up pretty good risk profiles.


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article] as taking charge of our [Ebola] response like a general. But that makes people think of a command-and-control approach. I think my approach is much more to enable and facilitate really good technical people to be able to have the amazing impact that they can by free- ing them from whatever is holding them back,


whether that’s administrative, managerial, political barriers or whatever.


I do have a certain capacity or inclina- tion to be able to take complex ideas and problems and break them down quickly into manageable and understandable approaches and interventions, and then be able to mobilize—probably with a lot of energy—our troops behind them. But in terms of a single descriptor, I think I’ve had to be a very different leader in very


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Aylward: Well, it’s funny—I’ve usually had these problems thrust on me. I don’t remember actually applying or asking to do any of those things. But the big motivator has always been the unequal access that I’ve seen and continue to see [to] some really basic health services. It’s really what motivates me, gets me out of bed every day. When I ran the polio erad- ication initiative, I remember one of my


different situations, and what I’ve tried to do is adapt the style to the context and challenges.


Army AL&T: Well, it’s precisely the big- ness of the things you’ve taken on that led us to you. What’s your motivation? What’s your attraction to these huge problems?


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