Colorado College chair and associate professor of political science Andrew Price-Smith will speak Wednesday on the expanding Ebola epidemic and its impact on global health, international governance, human rights and national security.

The Ebola virus has infected thousands in West Africa, and continues its spread through Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria.

Price-Smith will speak at 7 p.m. at the Student Commons above the Preserve in the Western Ridge Housing Complex, 1090 N. Cascade Ave.

The event is free.

This undated photo made available by the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, shows the Ebola virus viewed through an electron microscope.. (AP Photo/Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine)