Cast of Characters

In Washington

Barack Obama    President of the United States

Chris Coons    Senator from Delaware; member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Anthony Fauci    Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Ron Klain    U.S. ebola response coordinator; former chief of staff to Vice President Biden

Jeremy Konyndyk    Director, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development

Amy Pope    Deputy homeland security adviser, National Security Council

Samantha Power    Ambassador to the United Nations

Susan Rice    National security adviser

Rajiv Shah    Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development

Gayle Smith    Senior director for development and democracy, National Security Council

In West Africa

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf    President of Liberia

Alpha Conde    President of Guinea

Ernest Bai Koroma    President of Sierra Leone

Tolbert Nyenswah    Assistant minister of health, Liberia; head of Incident Management System

Tamba Boima    Director, Community Health Services Division, Ministry of Health, Liberia

Mosaka Fallah    Epidemiologist and immunologist

Hans Rosling    International health expert, Karolinska Institute

Sheik Umar Khan    Head of Lassa Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital

Robert Garry    Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University

Piet deVries    Country director for Liberia, Global Communities

Brett Sedgewick    Director of development services, Global Communities

George Woryonwon    Global Communities

David Robinson    Senior adviser for operations, World Vision International

Craig Spencer    Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)

Kent Brantly    Samaritan’s Purse

Nancy Writebol    Serving in Mission

David Blackley    Epidemiologist, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Barry Fields    Microbiologist, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Peter Kilmarx    Ebola response team leader, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Sierra Leone; deputy team leader, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Guinea

Kim Lindblade    Epidemiologist, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Joe Woodring    Senior medical officer, National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dan Martin    Public health adviser, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Leisha Nolen    Epidemic Intelligence Service, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Deborah Malac    U.S. ambassador to Liberia

Darryl Williams    Major general, commander, United States Army Africa

Gary Volesky    Major general, commander, 101st Airborne Division

Ross Lightsey    Lieutenant colonel, 101st Airborne Division

Tony Costello    Major, 36th Engineer Brigade

Jeff Kugelman    Captain, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases

Michael Schmoyer    Captain, U.S. Public Health Service

Fabian Leendertz    Epidemiologist, Robert Koch Institute

In Atlanta

Tom Frieden    Director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Charlie Stokes    President and chief executive officer, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation

At the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland

John Dye    Chief of Viral Immunology

Brian Gentile    Colonel, director of administration

David Norwood    Chief of Diagnostic Systems Division

Randy Schoepp    Virologist

Travis Warren    Principal investigator, Division of Molecular and Translational Sciences

In Geneva

Margaret Chan    Director-general, World Health Organization

Christopher Dye    Director of strategy, Office of the Director-General, World Health Organization

Gregory Hartl    Spokesman, World Health Organization

In Miami

Julio Frenk    President, University of Miami; member, World Health Organization Ebola Interim Assessment Panel