The report addresses how strained public health infrastructures can get in the face of large scale epidemics like in the ebola outbreak. It analyzes the responses of local government, health care workers, and MSF in the ebola outbreak, discussing what could have been done to prevent the spread and severity of the disease.
Data was collected since the beginning of the ebola outbreak in 2014 till sometime in 2015 before the article was published.
The components of the report are a timeline of the ebola outbreak, MSF's actions in response, a conclusion regarding future outbreaks similar to ebola, and a map of the region affected by ebola.
The report is cited in news articles and other studies about the ebola outbreak; some of the studies I found on Google Scholar were:
http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?pid=S0256-95742015001200008&script=…
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4508539/
https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1299…
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1736922875?pq-origsite=gscholar
MSF published this report a year after the largest Ebola outbreak that happened in West Africa in 2014.
The report has several small sections dedicated to possible ways the MSF could have responded better to the 2014 ebola outbreak; such as the medical challenges they faced, MSF challenges within the organization, and a "Looking to the future" about the importance of learning lessons from this epidemic.
The report is an NGO report; MSF has a page for its reports on its website.
The report implies that technical professionals have to be more careful when responding to large scale disasters; staff responding to emergencies need to have more training for the many internal challenges that would lmit care and assistance to victims. MSF discussed how they had limited man power, labs, and resources.
The report was published by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an independent, international medical humanitarian organization. They provide aid and high quality medical care to populations in locations of conflict, disease outbreak, and natural disasters.