Ebola Information Center

Editors’ note: In May 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an epidemic of Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virusopens in new tab/window in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)opens in new tab/window.     At Elsevier, we make essential information related to specific public health emergencies openly available to support researchers, healthcare professionals, policy makers and the public. This Ebola Information Center brings together freely available clinical and research resources to help the global health community respond to the current outbreak.

Additional resources will be added continually, including relevant research content.

Clinical information

To help healthcare professionals respond to the outbreak, Elsevier has created the Ebola Healthcare Hub. Here you will find evidence-based clinical resources, including clinical overviews, patient education and drug monographs

Research

Ebola-related articles and book chapters published by Elsevier have been made freely available on ScienceDirect. We will continue to make new content available for the duration of the crisis.

The Lancet Ebola Collection

Access Ebola-related research, reviews, commentaries and more as they are published across The Lancet Group’s journals.

Cell Press Ebola Collection

Access Cell Press’s Ebola research as it is published across Cell Press journals.

Early-stage research on SSRN’s Ebola Hub

SSRNopens in new tab/window — Elsevier’s platform for the rapid worldwide dissemination of early-stage research — is committed to making authors’ Ebola-related preprints available immediately. The Ebola Hub provides a curated view into new early-stage research to help researchers, public health authorities, clinicians and the public understand, contain, navigate and manage the current outbreak. It is important to note that these papers have not yet benefited from the peer-review process.

Ebola datasets on Mendeley Data

We have selected datasets indexed in the Mendeley Data repository to make it easier to find potentially relevant datasets for this topic.

Usage notice

Elsevier has created this Ebola Information Center in response to the declared public health emergency of international concern, with free information in English on Ebola virus disease. It is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company’s public news and information website.

Elsevier hereby makes all its Ebola-related research that is available on the Ebola Information Center immediately available, with rights for all to access, download, copy and translate in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the Ebola Information Center remains active. For all open access content, the relevant licensing terms apply.

Additional resources

Podcasts:

Dr. Jamie Childs, Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health

Episode: A Global Expert Helps Us Understand the Hantavirus Outbreakopens in new tab/window

(Recorded May 19; Published May 26)

Ebola arose as a point of comparison to hantavirus, with Dr. Childs describing the ongoing outbreak as “far more concerning.” He explained that it involves the strain, has resulted in close to 200 fatalities, has no available vaccine, and has spread into urban areas. He also warned that the dismantling of USAID and reduced WHO cooperation have significantly weakened the international response capacity that previous outbreaks relied upon.

Sir Peter Piot, Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Episode: Marshalling Effective Response to Health Crisesopens in new tab/window

(Recorded April 1; Published June 4)

Ebola is central to Sir Peter Piot’s story. He co-discovered the virus in 1976 and helped lead the response to the first recorded outbreak in what was then Zaire. He recounts the epidemiological detective work that identified close contact with body fluids and contaminated reused syringes as the primary transmission routes, noting that eleven of the seventeen hospital nurses involved lost their lives during the outbreak.

Dr. William Schaffner, Professor of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Episode: Assessing a Turbulent Year in Infectious Diseaseopens in new tab/window

(Recorded June 15; Publishing June 18 at 12pm ET)

Dr. Schaffner discusses the current Ebola outbreak as one of several crises marking a turbulent year in infectious disease. He shares what's complicating containment of the outbreak and the challenges of public health communication in today's social media environment.