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Jojo*, a young child who survived the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in Liberia, was cared for by health workers and her mother (right), also an Ebola survivor who was allowed to stay in the unit to care for her daughter.

Review of Outbreak Preparedness Training & Gaps Analysis

June 2020 | This READY initiative report presents findings and recommendations from a training assessment and gap analysis undertaken by READY to support an integrated approach to its development of outbreak readiness trainings.

Download READY Review of Outbreak Preparedness Training & Gaps Analysis (26 pages | 660KB .pdf)

Ethiopian internally-displaced persons practicing social distancing while receiving shelter kits in a small rural village in the Erer district of the Somali Region, Ethiopia. Image credit: Seifu Asseged / Save the Children

Lessons Learned from the Field: Experiences from the www.covid19humanitarian.com website

Mariana*, 10, shows her clean hands, after receiving a hygiene kit from Save the Children in Mexico. Mariana* is from Honduras and her and her family were displaced due to violence. She and her family are seeking a better future, and are waiting in a shelter in southern Mexico. Image credit: Marco Giron / Save the Children

Violence Against Health Care and the COVID-19 Response

This website is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of READY and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. Led by Save the Children, the READY initiative is implemented in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, UK-Med, and the Humanitarian Leadership Academy. READY is augmenting global capacity for non-governmental organizations to respond to large-scale infectious disease outbreaks.