In this episode, you’ll hear from three innovators working in the public health space, how they developed partnerships with PandemicTech, and what solutions were sparked in their nations and neighborhoods in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — solutions that highlight how an innovation ecosystem works to promote creativity and solve real, on-the-ground health problems.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Dr. May ElBatran
• Prof. Khadiga Gaafar
• Dr. Moredreck Chibi
• WHO Africa Innovation Challenge
• 2018 WHO Africa Innovation Challenge Impact Report
• Dr. Ikpeme Neto
• WellaHealth

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Disease testing has never been more a part of our day-to-day lives, just as constant awareness of a worldwide infectious disease threat has never been more a part of our lives. Even with this presence, like me, you might never have thought to look under the hood of the testing process. 

In this episode of the PandemicTech Podcast, we bring you an exploration of biosafety and biosecurity, diagnostic practices that have become intensely personal for all of us over the last twelve months, whether we realized it or not. 

Today, we’ll get to know Luis Ochoa-Carrera and Maureen Ellis, two biosafety and biosecurity specialists who manage the safe handling and process of live infectious disease pathogens like COVID that threaten the safety and health of citizens across the globe.

Featured in this episode:

• Luis Ochoa Carrera
• Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social
• Maureen Ellis
• International Federation of Biosafety Associations
• “Coronavirus: Meet Harley, Mexico City's fluorescent green raincoat wearing pug, spreading joy amongst frontliners” MSN, 17 May 2020
• 1985 Mexico City Earthquake
• 2017 Puebla Earthquake

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Disease surveyors — public health experts who collect, analyse, and interpret enormous amounts of health data, and, like sentries on watch, guard the gate — alert our healthcare first responders whenever infectious diseases threaten. In today’s episode, we explore the role of PandemicTech’s friends and colleagues in disease surveillance — Dr. Britta Lassmann, Dr. Philip AbdelMalik, and Dr. Oyewale Tomori.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Dr. Britta Lassmann
• ProMED
• ISID
• Philip Abdel Malick
• WHO
• WHO EIOS
• Dr. Oyewale Tomori
• Patrick Sawyer
• West African Ebola Epidemic
• “Africa eradicates wild poliovirus,” 25 August 2020, WHO Africa

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