--- title: Ebola: How to Respond to the Next Pandemic description: Infectious disease experts discuss how to respond to outbreaks like Ebola at Fortune's Brainstorm Health conference. canonical: https://time.com/4765674/ebola-pandemic-prevention/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-03T20:01:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:44:12.044Z article:section: Health og:title: 'You Can't Bomb Ebola': How Nations Should Handle Pandemics og:description: Experts warn not to forget the lessons of Ebola. og:url: https://time.com/4765674/ebola-pandemic-prevention/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd11b5f59bb191d25/6988cbe62dce014ab89ed548/beyond-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2048 og:image:height: 1152 og:image:alt: BEYOND EBOLA og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'You Can't Bomb Ebola': How Nations Should Handle Pandemics twitter:description: Experts warn not to forget the lessons of Ebola. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd11b5f59bb191d25/6988cbe62dce014ab89ed548/beyond-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'You Can't Bomb Ebola': How Nations Should Respond To the Next Pandemic > Sponsored content. 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Are we more prepared now to respond to future emerging disease outbreaks? Experts say countries are better positioned, but there’s still a lot of room for improvement. “\[Ours\] is not a culture of outbreak prevention,” said Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, medical director of the Special Pathogen Unit at the Boston University School of Medicine, during a panel at [Fortune’s Brainstorm Health Conference](http://fortune.com/2017/04/20/brainstorm-health-livestream-2/) on Wednesday. Bhadelia worked as an Ebola treatment unit clinician on four different trips to West Africa during the outbreak. “We chase one pathogen after another.” **MORE**: [The World Is Not Ready For The Next Pandemic](http://time.com/4766624/next-global-security/?iid=sr-link1) It’s critical for countries to find innovative ways to prevent another pandemic, experts said. Tapping into community resources is one crucial approach, said Dr. Raj Panjabi, the CEO of [Last Mile Health](http://lastmilehealth.org/), who trained 1,300 community health workers through his organization to offer care and work out logistics during the Ebola outbreak. Panjabi, who recently received the $1 million [TED Prize](https://www.ted.com/participate/ted-prize), is now launching [Community Health Academy](http://blog.ted.com/tag/community-health-academy/), the largest group of community health workers in the world. By training community members to become health care workers for their neighborhoods, countries like Liberia were better able to respond to Ebola. The same will be true of future health crises, he says. **MORE**: [Here’s What You Need To Know About Zika Virus](http://time.com/4318624/zika-virus-and-birth-defects-what-you-need-to-know/?iid=sr-link1) Getting organized on a local level is also necessary for an adequate response. At the start of the Ebola outbreak, most health workers in Liberia were working as volunteers, Panjabi said. Now, the country has approved policies to train, equip and pay community health workers. However, more support is needed to make sure nations are well prepared. “There’s not enough investment in these settings,” said Panjabi. “\[Ebola\] spread like wildfire across West Africa. Companies shut down, airlines started cutting their routes to West Africa. There are real consequences in not investing in the idea of health care for everyone, everywhere.” As for the best approach for the United States to take, the experts at the panel argued that leaders should not forget the lessons learned from the outbreak. “One of the places we would really hurt ourselves would to be ignore the signals we’ve learned from Ebola,” said Panjabi. “You can’t bomb Ebola or put up a wall to stop Ebola.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4765674/ebola-pandemic-prevention/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4765674/ebola-pandemic-prevention/"},"headline":"'You Can't Bomb Ebola': How Nations Should Respond To the Next Pandemic","datePublished":"2017-05-03T20:01:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:44:12.044Z","description":"Infectious disease experts discuss how to respond to outbreaks like Ebola at Fortune's Brainstorm Health conference.","url":"https://time.com/4765674/ebola-pandemic-prevention/","keywords":["ebola","Ebola outbreak","ebola vaccine"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd11b5f59bb191d25/6988cbe62dce014ab89ed548/beyond-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd11b5f59bb191d25/6988cbe62dce014ab89ed548/beyond-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"BEYOND EBOLA","caption":"","creditText":"Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm Health","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4765674/ebola-pandemic-prevention/","name":"'You Can't Bomb Ebola': How Nations Should Respond To the Next Pandemic"}}]}] ```