What the Ebola crisis tells us about our failing drug development system.
![Our current system for developing medicines fails in response to epidemic outbreaks, the authors say [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/201411392832879621_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Piero Olliaro is the head of intervention and implementation research at the Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, and Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor at the Center for Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford.
What the Ebola crisis tells us about our failing drug development system.
![Our current system for developing medicines fails in response to epidemic outbreaks, the authors say [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/201411392832879621_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)