#55 – Jassi Pannu and Joshua Monrad on Pandemic Preparedness
Jassi is a Resident Physician at Stanford. Joshua is a Biosecurity Program Officer at Effective Giving
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Show Notes
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Jassi Pannu is a Resident Physician at Stanford, a Visiting Scholar at John Hopkins, and a Fellow at the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative.
Joshua Monrad is a Biosecurity Program Officer at Effective Giving and a Researcher at Oxford's Future Humanity Institute.
We discuss:
- The post-COVID biosecurity landscape, including the American Pandemic Preparedness Plan
- The Biological Weapons Convention and current issues in dual-use research
- The role of antivirals, increasing vaccine capacity, and market failures
- Similarities and differences between GCBR mitigation and general pandemic preparedness
- How some interventions are underpinned by global cooperation
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