Hello, and welcome to our listeners. I’m Joshua Walker, and I am the Director of Programs at the Congo Research Group, based at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University.This special episode of Masolo Ya Kati is the first of three that CRG is producing in conjunction with a series of reports on the tenth Ebola epidemic in the eastern Congo. These reports examine the health infrastructure, political economy, and security-related aspects of the humanitarian response to the pandemic. Today, we have the two lead researchers who worked on the first report, released September 17th, titled “Ebola in the DRC: The Perverse Effects of a Parallel Health System.”  Rachel Niehuus is an anthropologist and physician who has conducted research in and on eastern DRC over the past 10 years. She obtained her MD and PhD at the University of California, San Francisco, before moving to Emory University in Atlanta, GA to pursue surgical training. Rachel is currently on sabbatical from clinical duties, and she’s working on her book on everyday life amidst war in the DRC. Luc Malemo Kalisya is a Congolese surgeon. Originally from North Kivu province, he completed medical school in Goma in 2002, after which he worked for HEAL Africa. He has two Master’s degrees: one in general surgery from Makerere University in Uganda and another in experimental global surgery from McGill University in Canada. Luc is currently finishing a PhD in Health and Development at Great Lakes University of Kisumu in Kenya.