In this episode of Biosecurity: Changing the Game, Dr. Dinah Nasike presents a narrative of a case study on Unit 731 to wrap up the Biological Weapons Covention series. Unit 731 was a secret biological weapons research operation unit operated by the Imperial Japanese Army that was responsible for large-scale biological and chemical warfare research.

Episode 14

In a 3 part series Dr. Dinah Nasike is joined by: Dr. Alex Kyabarongo, a veterinarian, former Political Affairs Intern at the Biological Weapons Convention, and currently a Masters of Biodefense Candidate at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University; and Sandra Matinyi, Biosecurity Game Changers Fellow and the Executive Director of Nuo Bioscience, Uganda. Together, they discuss the Biological Weapons Convention: what is it, why was it created and for whom, and how is it holding up in today's world of rapidly developing science and the escalating risk of epidemics?

In this episode of Biosecurity: Changing the Game, "A Rising Tide: The Escalating Wave of Global Infectious Disease Outbreaks," Dr. Dinah Nasike is joined by biosecurity experts Beth Cameron and Wilmot James, both Senior Advisors to Brown University's Pandemic Center and Peter Babigumira, a Senior Technical Advisor at Makerere University’s Infectious Diseases Institute and an Epidemic Intelligence Analyst at the Uganda Ministry of Health.

In this episode of Biosecurity: Changing the Game, Dr. Dinah Nasike and her guest, Darlington Akogo (Founder and CEO, minoHealth AI Labs; AI4Radiology Chair, United Nations ITU & WHO Focus Group on AI For Health) discuss the use of AI in the field of biomedical research in Africa.

In this 2 part discussion Dr. Dinah Nasike's meets with a group of next generation leaders who have decided to get involved in taking biological threats off the table by pitching a powerful proposal to the world on the 100 Days Mission: The Biosecurity Emerging Leaders Declaration at the 61st Munich Security Conference.

Guests: 

• Yorgo El Moubayed: Program Coordinator, International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) Foundation; Technical Consultant, IBBIS
• Kirsten Angeles: Independent Biosecurity Governance Researcher; NTI | bio BWC delegate 2023, Southeast Asia Biosecurity
• Thokozani Liwewe: Lilongwe District Health Office, Ministry of Health, Malawi
• José Garza Martínez: Researcher/Lecturer, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Instructor, Center of AI Safety; NTI | bio BWC delegate 2023
• Yuhan Bao, Liaison Officer, International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) Foundation

Dr. Dinah Nasike and her guests discuss the 100 Days Mission - an ambitious initiative developed after the Covid-19 pandemic meant to ensure that vaccines, diagnostics and treatments are developed, produced and distributed within 100 days of a major disease outbreak.

Guests: 

• Thokozani Liwewe, Biosecurity Game Changers Fellow and Clinical Lead for the District Health Office under the Ministry of Health in Malawi
• Yorgo El Moubayed, Program Coordinator at the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) Foundation and Technical Consultant at the International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science (IBBIS).
• Edyth Parker, Biosecurity Game Changers Fellow and Team Lead for Bioinformatics at the Institute of Genomics and Global Health
• Kirsten Angeles, Biosecurity Policy Researcher and NTI | bio BWC delegate 2023, Southeast Asia Biosecurity
• Jon Arizti Sanz, Biosecurity Game Changers Fellow at the Pandemic Center and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Dr. Dinah Nasike dives into the history and evolution of biosecurity: what biosecurity is; how it started; how it has evolved to become what we know as biosecurity today; and the events in the historical timeline that acted as tipping points and caused major shifts in global discourse around biosecurity.

Dr. Nasike’s guests are biosecurity experts Beth Cameron and Wilmot James, both Senior Advisors to Brown University's Pandemic Center and Peter Babigumira, a Senior Technical Advisor at Makerere University’s Infectious Diseases Institute and an Epidemic Intelligence Analyst at the Uganda Ministry of Health.