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Ebola: Beyond the Headlines by Dr. Paul Farmer (Transcript)

Paul Farmer, Founder of Partners In Health and Harvard professor talks about the global response to Ebola. This Talk at Google event took place on October 3, 2014.

Jacquelline Fuller – Director, Google.org

Okay. Well, welcome everybody. I’m Jacqueline Fuller. I lead Google.org. It’s Google’s philanthropy, focused on catalyzing the best tech solutions around the world for humanity. And today, we have Dr. Paul Farmer in the house.

Paul Farmer – Founder, Partners In Health and Harvard professor

Oh, thanks. Nerd fest.

Jacquelline Fuller – Director, Google.org

Yes. Yes. So this is such a thrill for so many of us. In fact, as we were getting the word out, and we had so many people who were interested, Dr. Farmer, that we’ve got people from Google offices in 41 different locations around the world. We’ve got Germany, New York City, Brazil, Mexico, Austin. Everyone wants to hear from you today. So we’re so, so very grateful that you’ve come.

And so the flow that we’re going to have is we will have a conversation and discussion for about 20 minutes. We’re going to then open it up for live questions, so get your questions ready. And if you’re in one of our offices, off location, we also have a Dory. You can find it. Just go Paul Farmer, if you want to submit Dory questions, because we’ll want to take all of your questions.

Paul Farmer – Founder, Partners In Health and Harvard professor

I’m having that tattooed on my arm.

Jacquelline Fuller – Director, Google.org

Go, Paul Farmer.

So let me start by just giving a little bit of an introduction for the man who needs no introduction.

Dr. Paul Farmer is a medical anthropologist. He’s a physician. He’s also an expert in infectious disease, which makes him the spot-on-guy we want to have for our discussion today, which is going to focus, in large part, on the Ebola epidemic.