Delivering time- and life-saving telehealth solutions during the West African Ebola crisis of 2014-16 and in the aftermath of the Charlottesville protests of 2017 required leveraging Cisco's Jabber and WebEx, the University of Virginia has said. Brian Gunnell, transformative technology strategist at the UVA Health System, said UVA initially became involved in the Ebola crisis in Africa because of its existing outreach programs with physicians traveling to developing nations.