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Explore the work of our Biosecurity Game Changers fellows. From recorded seminars and podcasts to an ongoing Journal Club and news highlights from the Pandemic Center. 

This showcase features insights from the next generation of biosecurity leaders tackling the world’s most pressing biosecurity and biosafety challenges.

Biosecurity: Changing the Game

Your go-to podcast for all things biosecurity and the science, politics and institutional norms that shape the discourse, policies and strategies around global biological threats. Hosted by Game Changer Fellow Dinah Nasike 


Biosecurity: Changing the Game Ep 2

 

In the 2nd Episode Dr Nasike continues the conversation that began last episode. We dive 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.

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Biosecurity: Changing the Game Ep 1

 

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In the inaugural episode of the podcast, Dr. Dinah Nasike dives into the history and evolution of biosecurity. This conversation explores: 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. 

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Decoding Biosecurity Journal Club

The Decoding Biosecurity Journal Club is a monthly forum dedicated to early-career professionals who share an interest in biosecurity, biosafety, and global health security. Its goal is to build a dynamic community where members can engage in critical discussions, share knowledge, and support each other’s professional growth.

Interested in joining the Journal Club?

Click on the link below to submit an interest form.

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Journal Club

April 2025:

The futility of the pandemic treaty: caught between globalism and statism

Clare Wenham, Mark Eccleston-Turner, Maike Voss

International Affairs, Volume 98, Issue 3, May 2022, Pages 837–852,

Journal Club

March 2025:

Establishing the value of regional cooperation and a critical role for regional organisations in managing future health emergencies

Rahman-Shepherd, Afifah et al.

The Lancet Global Health, Volume 13, Issue 3, e585 - e592

Journal Club

January 2025: 

Global wastewater surveillance for pathogens with pandemic potential: opportunities and challenges

Grassly, Nicholas C et al.

The Lancet Microbe, Volume 6, Issue 1, 100939

Journal Club

November 2024: 

Information hazards in biotechnology

Lewis G, Millett P, Sandberg A, Snyder-Beattie A, Gronvall G.

Risk Analysis, Volume 39, Issue 5:975-981

Game Changers Seminar Series

Convened and moderated by and intended for early-to-mid-career professionals, the Game Changers Seminar Series shines a spotlight on major challenges that will confront the next generation of biosecurity leaders. This also highlights impactful next steps that can be taken to lean forward faster to prevent biological crises. 

The moderator seat for this series rotates among the Biosecurity Game Changers Fellows and each seminar is conducted on a every-other-month-basis. Our next seminar is slated for May 2025.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/wTKbqiknLlI

Game Changers Seminar

 

Biosecurity Game Changers Seminar: Biosecurity, Biosafety, and the 100-Days Mission

https://www.youtube.com/embed/xfCdFrCSTms

Game Changers Seminar

 

Early Warning Systems, Disease Detection and Wastewater Biosurveillance

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