In an op-ed today in Roll Call, CMMB President and CEO Bruce Wilkinson has called on Congress to remember that while the Ebola crisis demands immediate attention—and funding—our shared long-term goal should be to strengthen the health systems that can stop epidemics from starting in the first place. This, he argues, means that development spending should not suffer in order to fund emergency care, which he calls “robbing Peter to pay Paul”. The full text is available here.