I was SO happy to read on Twitter that the final #Ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of Congo was released from the ALIMA treatment center in Beni, after a year of valiant effort against that deadly virus. The good news brought back so many memories of my time in #DRC covering the Ebola response for National Geographic last year. I’ll never forget the people I met at the treatment center in Beni, including a woman named Mamisi who survived Ebola and devoted her time to caring for babies of other patients. I got chills interviewing a true #globalhealth miracle in person. Last month, I witnessed another #globalhealth inspiration after meeting Dr. Adaora Okoli, MD, MPH during the #AspenNewVoices training in Nairobi. She was the face of the 2014 West African Ebola epidemic when she was infected after treating one of the first patients in #Nigeria . @DrAdaora’s experience as one of a handful of people to survive Ebola helped to transform her into a passionate #globalhealth advocate, and she is now completing her internal medicine residency at Tulane University , and later plans to do a fellowship focused on infectious disease, particularly viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs). The Aspen Institute #Africa #publichealth #publichealthemergency #HerDecisionsWillSaveYou …see more