Brenna Doran, PhD, MA, ACC, CIC, AL-CIP

August 03, 2026

New US Ebola travel restrictions require many travelers leaving the DRC to spend 21 days outside the country before returning home, creating logistical, financial, and operational challenges for health care responders.

July 23, 2026

What does a measles exposure investigation have in common with an Ebola outbreak? More than you might think. A new perspective explores how trust, surveillance, and contact tracing shaped Uganda's successful Ebola response.

July 22, 2026

How much infection prevention training should volunteers receive before participating in medical missions? A new perspective in Infection Control Today follows one college student's experience volunteering in rural Cambodia, where he was asked to perform clinical tasks well beyond his training. Years later, he realized just how many infection prevention risks he had unknowingly encountered. The article explores what his experience reveals about volunteer preparation, resource-limited care, and why basic infection prevention education should be considered essential for anyone participating in clinical outreach. Read the full story.

July 15, 2026

The latest Ebola outbreak is raising new challenges for global public health. Existing Ebola vaccines were designed for a different viral strain, leaving health care workers and communities to rely on supportive care while researchers test promising new treatments and vaccine candidates. Learn what this means for infection prevention professionals.

July 10, 2026

What makes contact tracing effective during an Ebola outbreak? This article explains how IPs and public health teams use the same core principles, such as rapid case identification, exposure assessment, contact monitoring, and community engagement, to reduce disease transmission. Using the ongoing Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the DRC as a case study, it highlights why trust, surveillance, and high contact follow-up rates remain essential to successful IPC efforts worldwide.

July 06, 2026

More than 100 health care workers have been infected during the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. While the risk to US health care facilities remains low, the outbreak provides powerful lessons about PPE readiness, surveillance, staffing, and community trust. This commentary explores why infection preventionists should pay close attention, not because Ebola is coming here, but because the challenges are universal.