Philanthropist and entrepreneur Paul G. Allen has been a catalyst for the global response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. He is the largest private donor, committing at least $100 million to support innovative and impactful solutions to the crisis. This timeline illustrates key milestones in the crisis as well as efforts by the Paul G. Allen Ebola Program to stop the outbreak.
The outbreak begins when a 2-year-old boy in the remote Guinean village of Meliandou falls ill with a mysterious illness.
The Ebola virus is identified as the cause of an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in southern Guinea. WHO publishes the official notification of Ebola on its website on March 23.
The World Health Organization declares the Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern and calls on the international community to provide assistance.
Paul G. Allen begins his support of the response to Ebola with a $2.8 million grant to the American Red Cross to fund equipment, volunteers and educational materials in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Paul G. Allen announces additional grants to the CDC Foundation, UNICEF, Airlink and MSF. The Tackle Ebola campaign is launched to raise awareness of the crisis and provide information and opportunities for people to donate to organizations battling the outbreak.
The Ebola outbreak peaks in the last months of 2014. At one point, the CDC projects up to 1.4 million Ebola cases within 4 months. New cases increase rapidly into January.
On September 30, 2014, the CDC announced that Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national visiting the U.S. from Liberia, had been diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas, Texas. Additional cases were reported in the U.S. and Europe in the following weeks.
Paul G. Allen increases his commitment to tackling Ebola to at least $100 million and issues a call to action for other large donors and individuals to join him in the fight.
New grants provide immediate humanitarian relief to address basic human needs threatened by the Ebola outbreak. Additional support provides care for the growing number of children orphaned by the disease. Additional support provides smartphones and improved connectivity to enhance data collection and identify aid needs in the affected areas in Africa.
Time Magazine names the Ebola Fighters as its Person of the Year.
President Obama recognizes the efforts of those fighting the outbreak during his State of the Union address. The Paul G. Allen Ebola Program hosts a breakfast on Capitol Hill to honor those who have been working to stop the outbreak.
After launching the Tackle Ebola ribbon in January, actor David Oyelowo wears a version of the ribbon at the 2015 Academy Awards.
The rapid spread of the Ebola virus begins to decline in West Africa, with the global community also shifting more focus to recovery efforts across the region.
Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions and RYOT Films announce a partnership to produce and distribute the short film 'Body Team 12' about a group of Liberian Red Cross workers tasked with collecting the dead during the height of the outbreak. Other educational media projects to help stop Ebola include the #ISurvivedEbola video campaign and BBC Media Action’s radio programs in West Africa.
The Ebola Innovation Summit held on April 21st in San Francisco, brought together the brightest minds in global health, technology and government in an effort to solve four key challenges in the ongoing Ebola response.
Liberia is declared Ebola free for the first time since the outbreak began. In September, Liberia was declared free of the virus for a second time after the quick containment of new cases in June.
Paul G. Allen Ebola Program staff visit Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia to better understand latest events in the field and see the impact of our investments.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hosted an International Ebola Recovery Conference in New York to ensure that recovery efforts go beyond redressing direct development losses to build back better and ensure greater resilience.
The Paul G. Allen Ebola Program, the U.S. Department of State, and MRIGlobal unveiled first of-their-kind biocontainment units at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia. This unique public-private partnership brought together diverse resources and advanced thinking to develop the next generation of biocontainment, greatly improving U.S. medevac capability and better preparing us for global health threats in the future.
Through funding from the Paul G. Allen Ebola Program, the CDC Foundation, in partnership with the governments of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, dedicated new Emergency Operations Center that will aid the countries in preparing for future health threats.
The Center for Infectious Disease Research awards Paul G. Allen the 2015 Champion for Global Health Award for his efforts to stop Ebola. A few days later he receives the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.
The Paul G. Allen Ebola Program awards seven grants, totaling $11 million, to organizations that are taking innovative approaches to tackling the gaps in the world’s ability to effectively respond to global health crises that were exposed by the outbreak.
Sierra Leone is officially declared Ebola free, though new cases in Liberia highlight the need for continued diligence in the fight against Ebola.
In a visit to Guinea, members of the Paul G. Allen Ebola Program team saw first-hand some of the ongoing activities designed to end the outbreak and overcome its effects.
WHO declares the end of Ebola transmission in Guinea, a significant milestone in the West Africa Ebola outbreak, and the first time all three of the most affected countries have ended the original chains of transmission since 2013.
WHO declares the end of the most recent outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia and says all known chains of transmission have been stopped in West Africa, marking the end of this epidemic across the region.
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