Here’s something you don’t see every day: A man talking into a coffee pot. But for CDC epidemiologist Norbert Soke and a team of colleagues in a hotel in Kinshasa, it was a way to break through a communications barrier. The pot held not coffee, but a cell phone—and speaking into it created an echo chamber that let the team power through a poor connection with colleagues in Goma, near the outbreak’s epicenter.
“That’s the beauty of field work. You need to be creative sometimes,” Soke says.
Soke grew up in Kinshasa, the capital of DRC, and earned an MD at the University of Kinshasa in 1995. He returned in March as the CDC and other global health agencies battled the current outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the eastern part of the country. Find out more about Norbert’s story, read his complete responder story.
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