History of SCDP

Creating a global model of care for emerging infectious diseases

Five years ago, the world watched as the first of four patients with Ebola virus disease arrived at Emory. At a time when little was known about caring for these patients, the university's Serious Communicable Diseases Unit (SCDU) successfully treated those with Ebola, creating protocols of care that are now the standard when caring for patients with deadly infections. With Ebola still very much a threat — the World Health Organization recently declared the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a global health emergency — Emory's team of researchers and infectious disease experts are translating the learnings from 2014 to everyday patient care and working to find game-changing therapies for the disease.