#55 – Jassi Pannu and Joshua Monrad on Pandemic Preparedness
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A full writeup of this episode, including references and a transcript, is available on our website: hearthisidea.com/episodes/pannu-monrad Jassi Pannu is a Resident Physician at Stanford, a Visiting Scholar at John Hopkins, and a Fellow at the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative. Joshua Monrad is a Biosecurity Program Officer at Effective Giving and a Researcher at Oxford's Future Humanity Institute. We discuss: The post-COVID biosecurity landscape, including the American Pandemic Preparedness Plan The Biological Weapons Convention and current issues in dual-use research The role of antivirals, increasing vaccine capacity, and market failures Similarities and differences between GCBR mitigation and general pandemic preparedness How some interventions are underpinned by global cooperation If you have any feedback, you can get a free book for filling out our new feedback form. You can also get in touch through our website or on twitter. Consider leaving us a review wherever you're listening to this — it's the best free way to support the show. Thanks for listening!
