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Biosecurity: Changing the Game

Biosecurity: Changing the Game

By: The Pandemic Center Brown University School of Public Health
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 Host Dr. Dinah Nasike takes you on a journey through the complex and evolving world of biosecurity, featuring insightful conversations with leading professionals, field experts and innovators in the field. From emerging and re-emerging epidemics and early-warning systems research and innovation, to pathogen economies, bioterrorism and global norms. This podcast will take a deep dive into critical conversations happening around biosecurity and how countries, institutions, experts and politicians are strategically posturing themselves.Copyright 2025 The Pandemic Center, Brown University School of Public Health Political Science Politics & Government Science
Episodes
  • Taking Biological Threats Off The Table Through Next-Generation Global South Leadership

    Taking Biological Threats Off The Table Through Next-Generation Global South Leadership
    May 15 2025

    In this episode, Dr. Dinah Nasike brings together a group of next generation leaders who have decided to get involved in taking biological threats off the table by pitching a powerful proposal to the world on the 100 Days Mission: The Biosecurity Emerging Leaders Declaration at the 61st Munich Security Conference.

    This episode's guests include:

    • Yorgo El Moubayed: Program Coordinator, International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) Foundation; Technical Consultant, IBBIS
    • Kirsten Angeles: Independent Biosecurity Governance Researcher; NTI | bio BWC delegate 2023, Southeast Asia Biosecurity
    • Thokozani Liwewe: Lilongwe District Health Office, Ministry of Health, Malawi
    • José Garza Martínez: Researcher/Lecturer, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Instructor, Center of AI Safety; NTI | bio BWC delegate 2023
    • Yuhan Bao, Liaison Officer, International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) Foundation

    Links:

    • Biosecurity Emerging Leaders Declaration at the 61st Munich Security Conference
    • iGEM
    • Munich Security Conference
    • IPPS - 100 Days Mission
    • CEPI
    • The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)
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    31 mins
  • The 100 Days Mission (Pt. II)

    The 100 Days Mission (Pt. II)
    May 1 2025

    In the second part of 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
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    42 mins
  • The 100 Days Mission

    The 100 Days Mission
    Apr 17 2025

    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
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    40 mins

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