In this edition of Biosecurity: Changing the Game, 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

Links:

• UNODA – United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
• iGEM
• Munich Security Conference
• Platform Technology
• PMC: mRNA Platforms
• Nature: CRISPR-based genetic sequencing
• European Medicines Agency (EMA)
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration
• IPPS - 100 Days Mission
• CEPI

In this continuation and conclusion of the conversation that began last episode, 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.

Links:

• Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction (GPWMD)
• Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA)
• Africa CDC Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiative
• The Joint External Evaluation (JEE)
• The International Health Regulations (IHR 2005)
• The International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science
• Biosecurity Game Changers Fellowship Program
• The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)

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.

Links:

• Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction (GPWMD)
• Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA)
• Africa CDC Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiative
• The Joint External Evaluation (JEE)
• The International Health Regulations (IHR 2005)
• The International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science
• Biosecurity Game Changers Fellowship Program
• The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)