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	Podcast:		Global Health - Audio
	Episode:		Curating the CDC Ebola Exhibit
	Category:		Science & Medicine
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	Publish Date:		2017-07-11 08:30:00
	Description:		Louise E. Shaw, Curator of the David J. Sencer CDC Museum, reflects on her experience curating the temporary exhibit EBOLA: People + Public Health + Political Will. This new exhibition is a look at the historic 2014-16 epidemic in West Africa, the U.S., and around the world. The exhibition explores the early days of the outbreak; the heroic work of West African and international healthcare workers; how CDC worked with the governments of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, and other partners; how America responded when Ebola reached the U.S.; and issues facing Ebola survivors, including stigma. CDC personnel deployed to West Africa assisted with the response efforts, and in Atlanta, thousands of CDC staff members provided logistics, communications, and management support. The exhibition features artifacts, first-person audio testimonials, innovative health communication materials, and documentaries; stunning photographs by leading photojournalists, and images taken by CDC staff deployed to West Africa. It features the GHPC documentary “Ebola in America: Epidemic of Fear” that illuminates how Americans experienced Ebola in 2014. The exhibit will be open through May 25, 2018. Louise Shaw has served as the Curator of the David J. Sencer CDC Museum (formerly the Global Health Odyssey Museum) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since 2002. She is responsible for curating The Story of CDC, permanent exhibits tracing the history of CDC from its roots in the Public Health Service to contemporary times, and has organized temporary exhibitions such as EBOLA: People + Public Health + Political Will; VD: Values, Rights, Public Health; Health Is a Human Right: Race and Place in America, and Resettling in America: Georgia’s Refugee Communities. From 1983 – 1998, she served as Executive Director of Nexus Contemporary Art Center (now Atlanta Contemporary Art Center). She was Director of the Georgia State University Art Gallery from 1981-83, and served as Assistant Curator of the Atlanta Historical Society, (now Atlanta History Center) from 1977-1981 Hosted by Steve Morrison. Produced by Cathryn Streifel. Edited by Bryce Thompson.
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