Ebola Virus Disease Preparedness Course for Frontline Healthcare Workers
A free, mobile-phone accessible, self-, online training designed to equip frontline health-care workers with essential skills to detect, report, and manage EVD safely and effectively.
– Created by Resolve to Save Lives, based on latest WHO Ebola virus disease guidance
– Free
– Available for all countries in Africa
– Mobile-friendly accessibility
– Clinical scenarios (focused on primary healthcare level)
– Engaging learning methods
– Currently in English, French version available very soon
– Self-paced flexibility
– Certificate of participation generated upon completion
-Takes approximately 40 minutes to complete
-Covers how to:
– Recognize EVD cases using standard case definitions
– Provide initial case management/safe supportive care for suspected cases
– Take appropriate infection prevention and control measures when a case is suspected
– Report suspected cases promptly and appropriately











This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African Region. The WHO Health Emergencies Programme is currently monitoring 129 events in the region. Weekly articles cover a range of diseases and currently include, amongst others: COVID-19 across the WHO African region and Ebola virus disease in Guinea.
This poster illustrates the correct ways to protect against Ebola. For example: do not touch people with signs of Ebola or who have died of Ebola, but instead always wash your hands with soap and water.
This poster illustrates the early signs and symptoms of Ebola. Early symptoms include: fever, headache, body ache, diarrhea and weakness.
This illustrated brochure provides facts on EVD, how Ebola is spread, prevention methods and signs and symptoms.
This resource provides lessons from previous Ebola outbreaks in the DRC on adapting to the language needs of communities and centers language as a key trust builder between communities and public health experts.
This article (published in Military Medicine (2020) provides tips for leaders on “what to communicate and how to communicate” during a crisis, using lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak as well as lessons now emerging from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This perspective offers practical guidelines for leaders identified here as the 3 W’s and 4C’s of crisis communication.