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Across this same span of years, there have been multiple calls for developing leadership in disaster medicine and global health. Strikingly similar statements have been made by Rigby, Kumanyika, and James in 2004; Leeder, Raymond, and Greenberg in 2007; the United Nations High-level meeting on noncommunicable disease prevention and control in 2011; and Silberner and Marissa Miley in 2015; highlighting the need to “build the skills and capacities necessary to help the world be better prepared.” Following the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, (then) WHO Director General Margaret Chan summarized the challenges of global disaster medicine capabilities as including the absence of national detection and response capacities at nearly every level of the health system and universally weak preparedness and response capacities.