Q&A with PFC Director of Global Health and Rights Project, Alicia Ely Yamin
Alicia Ely Yamin combines academic research that bridges law, development, and public health with grassroots work and policy advocacy.

By Alicia Ely Yamin As Susan Sontag eloquently noted decades ago, illness conjures metaphors that reveal a great deal about how we think about, and, in turn, address them. None more so than the lethal Ebola, which monstrously disfigures bodies before killing the infected person and spreading rapidly through the routines of everyday life. In…