Overview
Ways you can support UCSF's response efforts.
When assessing a situation, GDAC considers a broad range of potential responses to help those affected.
This can include:
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Advocacy
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Fundraising
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Education or training
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Direct patient care
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Organizing volunteer groups
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Research
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Consulting
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Rapid needs assessment
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Donating vacation time to UCSF personnel taking leaves to absence to volunteer
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Backfilling volunteers' or responders' regular work
In 2014, UCSF formed the Ebola Task Force to respond to the health crisis in West Africa and enlisted many of the tactics above.