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Doses of Reality: A Matter of National Health Security (with Dr. Seth Berkley)

October 29, 2025
(Airdate 10/29/2025) In this episode, Jess and Sarah welcome Dr. Seth Berkley, a leading public health expert, to examine pressing global health security challenges. The scientists explore the concerning resurgence of preventable diseases and the critical role of vaccination programs in protecting populations. Dr. Berkley shares insights on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing persistent issues of vaccine inequity and hesitancy across different communities. The conversation tackles the troubling rise of anti-science legislation and the erosion of public trust in scientific institutions, while also examining the tensions between individual health freedom and collective public health responsibility. Throughout the episode, the experts offer both sobering assessments of current challenges and hopeful perspectives on future advancements in global health and scientific progress.
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WNYC

Pandemic Preparedness Alert - The Brian Lehrer Show

October 28, 2025
Seth Berkley, MD, an infectious disease epidemiologist currently advising vaccine, biotechnology, and technology companies; an adjunct professor and senior adviser to the Pandemic Center at Brown University; former CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; cofounded COVAX; founded and served as CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative; and the author of Fair Doses: An Insider’s Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity (University of California Press, 2025), talks about the need for vaccine equity and lessons learned (and ignored) from the COVID pandemic.
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Stat News

Global security is impossible without sufficient support for global health

October 28, 2025
At the World Health Summit in Berlin earlier this month, I was pleased to hear discussions highlighting the crucial role of health initiatives in overall global security.

This is hardly a new topic, but it’s increasingly relevant. The risks from natural, accidental, and deliberate spread of infectious agents are escalating and with advances in synthetic biology and artificial intelligence, outbreaks have the potential to be far more lethal. Strong, well-functioning health systems that improve people’s health and help prevent outbreaks of emerging new infectious diseases are as vital to global security as advanced weaponry, military strategy, and intelligence.
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Live Science

Future pandemics are a 'certainty' — and we must be better prepared to distribute vaccines equitably, says Dr. Seth Berkley

October 28, 2025
Months before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, efforts were already underway to ensure low-income countries would get access to future vaccines against the infection. The book "Fair Doses" tells that story and discusses the ongoing fight for vaccine equity around the world.
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BMJ Group

Seth Berkley interview: vaccination in a time of extreme scepticism

October 28, 2025
The former head of the international vaccine access organisation Gavi tells The BMJ about the politicising of vaccination, chaos at the CDC, and the impact on global vaccine equity
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Live Science

'This is a completely different level of anti-vaccine engagement than we've ever seen before,' says epidemiologist Dr. Seth Berkley

October 28, 2025
Epidemiologist Dr. Seth Berkley spoke to Live Science about the importance of vaccine equity and the obstacles undermining it, as well as the political challenges to vaccines being raised in the U.S.
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Daily Maverick

AI bioweapons risk presents greatest challenge of our time — a surveillance state vs chaotic misuse

October 23, 2025
AI experts, Nobel Laureates, Fortune 500 CEOs, NGO leaders and leading academic gathered in Mexico to discuss how to intervene in a system to keep superintelligence safe without sacrificing the core values of a free and open society.
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Scientific American

Why We Know So Little About What Medications Are Safe for Pregnancy

October 23, 2025
During the past few months, President Trump and his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., have made sweeping, thinly evidenced claims that Tylenol (acetaminophen) in pregnancy is linked to autism and that SSRIs (antidepressants) might be linked to fetal damage. In the case of Tylenol, the few research studies that claim to find a link either don’t control for confounding variables or find that the link disappears when they do; the drug has also been safely prescribed to children for decades. And scientists actually have studied SSRIs in pregnancy fairly extensively. But while these two types of drugs have been widely studied, that’s more the exception than the norm. In fact, most clinical trials and drug studies explicitly exclude people who are pregnant.
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The BMJ

Defunding mRNA vaccine research leaves us all more vulnerable to future health emergencies

October 20, 2025
Multilateral initiatives are needed to signal confidence and fill funding gaps in mRNA research, writes Jennifer B Nuzzo
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The Return of a Preventable Disease: Measles, misinformation and the crisis at the CDC

October 14, 2025
Measles has been declared eliminated in the U.S. for 25 years, but a surge in cases is threatening that status. Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University, joined Humans in Public Health to break down the outbreak, the chaotic federal response and how her team's tracker is stepping in to provide reliable, life-saving data.
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Fair Doses: Towards A Future of Vaccine Equity and Innovation with Dr. Seth Berkley

October 13, 2025
In this episode Ben Plumley catches up with Dr. Seth Berkley, founder of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, former CEO of GAVI and amongst other responsibilities, now a senior advisor at Brown University's School of Public Health's Pandemic Center. Seth has recently published a new book “Fair Doses: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity” and he and Ben discuss the book’s topics of vaccine equity, misinformation, and the rapid innovations in vaccine development, particularly the success and future potential of mRNA vaccines. Dr. Berkley highlights the challenges posed by misinformation and the political landscape, as well as the importance of global collaboration in addressing pandemics. They also explore his defining role in Covax's efforts to distribute COVID vaccines, the need for local manufacturing, and the impacts of nationalistic policies on global health. Dr. Berkley stresses the critical role of ongoing innovation and funding in preparing for future health crises and ensuring equitable access to health technologies. And he pulls no punches on the current US administration’s failures in supporting global health research and partnerships.
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The Minnesota Star Tribune

Why not vaccinate Minnesota turkeys for bird flu? It could start a trade fight.

October 8, 2025
Avian flu flared up in Minnesota poultry operations last month after a nearly eight-month reprieve, forcing farmers to depopulate eight turkey barns.

A vaccine exists for this highly pathogenic avian influenza, which could be used against the nearly four-year outbreak that has wiped out 9.2 million birds in Minnesota alone.
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News from the Pandemic Center

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State Guide for Clean Indoor Air

September 18, 2025
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A Quarter of States Have Advanced Healthy Indoor Air Legislation–But Action Still Falls Short

August 26, 2025
Toward Cleaner Indoor Air: Mapping State Legislative Progress
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News from the Pandemic Center

Wildfire Season Is Here – A Wake-Up Call for Indoor Air Quality

July 16, 2025
Wildfire smoke serves as a clear, visible reminder to take action for cleaner indoor air
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News from the Pandemic Center

Brown Partners with Stanford Forum on Sustainable and Healthy Buildings

April 7, 2025
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News from the Pandemic Center

Rhode Island is taking action to improve air quality in schools

March 20, 2025
Improves learning. Reduces sick days. Prevents disease spread.
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News from the Pandemic Center

Brown Pandemic Center Advances Priority Actions For Clean Indoor Air and Healthy Buildings

March 4, 2025
Common-sense, actionable steps to inform individual and collective efforts for schools, nursing homes, defense buildings, and more
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News from the Pandemic Center

At Munich Security Conference: Brown Pandemic Center Partners to Advance Next Gen Global South Leadership in Biosecurity and the 100 Days Mission

February 14, 2025
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News from the Pandemic Center

Pandemic Center Brief: National Wastewater Surveillance

January 23, 2025
This Pandemic Center-authored brief explores the current landscape of wastewater surveillance in the US and the importance of developing it further.
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News from the Pandemic Center

Pandemic Center Game Changers: New Fellowship to Prepare Next Gen Leaders to Shape the Future of Biosecurity

August 21, 2024
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News from the Pandemic Center

At 77th World Health Assembly: New Initiative Launches To Establish Global Health Security Network

May 28, 2024
Biosecurity Readiness through Intelligence, Data, and Global Engagement Alliance
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News from the Pandemic Center

Dr. Seth F. Berkley to Receive the 2024 Jimmy And Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award

April 15, 2024
Brown University Pandemic Center leader honored for outstanding humanitarian efforts and achievements in the field of global public health
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News from the Pandemic Center

Pandemic Center Interview: Professor William Goedel on using cutting edge tools to reveal our pandemic history

April 2, 2024
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