Learning on the Ground and on Your Feet With George F. Gao
George F. Gao walks briskly through the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, where he's just taken part in an animated panel discussion about the contributions of microbiologists in the international response to outbreaks like Ebola. Five years ago, Gao was in a very different setting. The West African Ebola outbreak had been ongoing for several months and showed no sign of containment. As then-Deputy Director-General of China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention