Last year, an international partnership that includes the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Defense, the Department of Agriculture, as well as donors and agencies from Canada and European countries, and health officials in countries around the world opened a program to train front line field epidemiologists in Liberia. Since then, according to data released at a Capitol Hill briefing Tuesday, 300 Liberians have been trained to handle specimens headed for diagnostic laboratories safely and 97 disease surveillance officers across the country have been trained, almost all of them by now having participated in at least one response to an infectious disease outbreak, including the re-emergence of Ebola infections that surfaced there in March 2016.