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Pan­demic preparedness

TagLast edit: 10 Apr 2022 22:09 UTC by Pablo

Pandemic preparedness is the set of measures to better prepare humanity for future pandemics.

Further reading

Jamieson, Alice (2021) Improving global pandemic preparedness by 2025, Wellcome.

Ord, Toby (2020) Why we need worst-case thinking to prevent pandemics, The Guardian, March 6.

Vox Staff (2022) Pandemic-Proof, Vox, April 4.

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biosecurity | COVID-19 pandemic | global catastrophic biological risk | vaccines

UK an­nounces early warn­ing sys­tem for pandemics

Agustín Covarrubias 🔸6 Nov 2024 16:56 UTC
54 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.gov.uk)

Pro­tect­ing against vi­tal worker short­ages in ex­treme pandemics

jamesmulhall🔹9 May 2025 19:17 UTC
41 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Bioweapons shelter pro­ject launch

Benevolent_Rain14 Jun 2022 3:44 UTC
75 points
19 comments8 min readEA link

An­timicro­bial sur­faces for pan­demic prevention

kirke16 Nov 2024 16:33 UTC
17 points
0 comments15 min readEA link
(k1rk3.github.io)

Two fully funded PhD po­si­tions in statis­ti­cal mod­el­ling for in­fec­tious dis­eases at Univer­sity of Lim­er­ick and Trinity Col­lege Dublin, Ireland

rotatingpaguro2 Mar 2023 11:48 UTC
29 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.jiscmail.ac.uk)

[Question] Papers on the cost effec­tive­ness /​ ROI of pan­demic pre­pared­ness in­ter­ven­tions?

freedomandutility11 Jan 2023 23:06 UTC
32 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

De­lay, De­tect, Defend: Prepar­ing for a Fu­ture in which Thou­sands Can Re­lease New Pan­demics by Kevin Esvelt

Jeremy15 Nov 2022 16:23 UTC
177 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(dam.gcsp.ch)

A Frame­work for Tech­ni­cal Progress on Biosecurity

kyle_fish3 Nov 2021 10:57 UTC
87 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

How to Make In­dus­try Pre­pare for Pandemics

ColdButtonIssues24 Feb 2025 15:53 UTC
16 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Se­cur­ing Civ­i­liza­tion Against Catas­trophic Pandemics

Jeff Kaufman 🔸3 Nov 2023 19:33 UTC
30 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(dam.gcsp.ch)

Sam­ple Prevalence vs Global Prevalence

Jeff Kaufman 🔸8 Jul 2024 21:01 UTC
34 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Alvea—A COVID Vac­cine Project

kyle_fish16 Feb 2022 13:50 UTC
372 points
25 comments2 min readEA link

Crit­i­cal Re­view of Model­ling Strate­gies against Pandemics

Jérémy A🔸7 Oct 2024 11:18 UTC
39 points
3 comments37 min readEA link

The best $5,800 I’ve ever donated (to pan­demic pre­ven­tion).

ASB5 Feb 2022 21:18 UTC
281 points
81 comments4 min readEA link

Map of Biose­cu­rity Interventions

James Lin30 Oct 2022 18:25 UTC
166 points
32 comments3 min readEA link

Three Rea­sons Early De­tec­tion In­ter­ven­tions Are Not Ob­vi­ously Cost-Effective

C.K.21 Apr 2024 21:05 UTC
64 points
4 comments16 min readEA link

Test­ing Ge­netic Eng­ineer­ing De­tec­tion with Spike-Ins

Jeff Kaufman 🔸22 Oct 2024 17:20 UTC
15 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

An­timicro­bial Sur­faces For Pan­demic Preven­tion?

C.K.7 Apr 2024 8:45 UTC
32 points
4 comments17 min readEA link

Ap­pli­ca­tions Now Open for Johns Hop­kins Cen­ter for Health Se­cu­rity Ed­u­ca­tional Op­por­tu­ni­ties for 2025-2026 Aca­demic Year

BiosecurityMaven232 Oct 2024 12:50 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Pan­demic apathy

Matthew Rendall4 May 2024 15:41 UTC
45 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing ac­ci­den­tally-caused pandemics

JoshuaBlake17 Jan 2024 19:36 UTC
48 points
4 comments4 min readEA link
(blog.joshuablake.co.uk)

Var­i­ance of the an­nual con­flict and epi­demic/​pan­demic deaths as a frac­tion of the global population

Vasco Grilo🔸10 Sep 2024 17:02 UTC
17 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

How can economists best con­tribute to pan­demic pre­ven­tion and pre­pared­ness?

Rémi T22 Aug 2021 20:49 UTC
56 points
3 comments23 min readEA link

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes: Mis­in­for­ma­tion Gone Viral: Ed­u­ca­tion As Pan­demic Prevention

Coefficient Giving12 Jul 2022 7:38 UTC
8 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

Wild an­i­mal suffer­ing is su­per ne­glected com­pared with fac­tory-farm­ing, and this is su­per ne­glected com­pared with con­flicts, epi­demics/​pan­demics, and global warming

Vasco Grilo🔸30 Mar 2025 8:41 UTC
45 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Air Safety to Com­bat Global Catas­trophic Biorisks [OLD VERSION]

Jam Kraprayoon26 Dec 2022 16:58 UTC
78 points
0 comments36 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

What are the biggest mis­con­cep­tions about biose­cu­rity and pan­demic risk?

80000_Hours29 Feb 2024 14:52 UTC
100 points
3 comments14 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

List of Lists of Con­crete Biose­cu­rity Pro­ject Ideas

Tessa A 🔸16 Jul 2022 15:57 UTC
218 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

Day Zero An­tivirals for Fu­ture Pan­demics by Brian Wang

xander_balwit26 Aug 2024 15:30 UTC
18 points
1 comment10 min readEA link
(www.asimov.press)

In­tro­duc­ing the new Ries­gos Catas­trófi­cos Globales team

Jaime Sevilla3 Mar 2023 23:04 UTC
74 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com)

Pardis Sa­beti on the Sen­tinel sys­tem for de­tect­ing and stop­ping pandemics

80000_Hours29 Jul 2021 16:36 UTC
13 points
0 comments101 min readEA link

An­drew Sny­der-Beat­tie on the low-tech plan to patch hu­man­ity’s great­est weakness

80000_Hours2 Oct 2025 17:05 UTC
82 points
0 comments20 min readEA link

New EU Author­ity for Pan­demic Preparedness

Yassin Alaya17 Nov 2021 20:57 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

An­tiviral pho­to­dy­namic ther­apy seems underfunded

freedomandutility31 Jul 2022 15:55 UTC
10 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Fund­ing needed to screen for hu­man H5N1 flu transmission

Grant Higerd-Rusli2 Dec 2024 16:01 UTC
32 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Is a biol­ogy bac­calau­re­ate a good start for an un­der­grad­u­ate look­ing to work on ar­tifi­cial pan­demic pre­ven­tion?

Eduardo26 Nov 2022 13:42 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Re­sponses to pa­demic pathogens with differ­ing be­havi­ours...and are we in the clear of covid-19 yet?

Kinoshita Yoshikazu (pseudonym)17 Jan 2023 15:12 UTC
0 points
6 comments2 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

How many peo­ple die from the flu? (OWID)

Lizka24 Oct 2022 21:54 UTC
45 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(ourworldindata.org)

NPR’s Indi­ca­tor on WHO fund­ing and pan­demic preparedness

Eevee🔹19 Mar 2022 1:37 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.npr.org)

[Question] What would be the best de­gree for a med­i­cal stu­dent to in­ter­ca­late in if they wanted to get in­volved in global health/​pan­demic pre­pared­ness?

Rohan Singh28 Nov 2022 16:33 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of epi­demic/​pan­demic preparedness

Vasco Grilo🔸30 Jun 2024 13:37 UTC
32 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

How we failed

Jan_Kulveit23 Mar 2022 10:08 UTC
120 points
16 comments5 min readEA link

[linkpost] H5N1: Two con­firmed in­fected in same fam­ily; four symp­tomatic close con­tacts tested but none of these con­firmed as positive

pseudobison25 Feb 2023 7:27 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.bloomberg.com)

Pod­cast: Bryan Ca­plan on open bor­ders, UBI, to­tal­i­tar­i­anism, AI, pan­demics, util­i­tar­i­anism and la­bor economics

Gus Docker22 Feb 2022 15:04 UTC
22 points
0 comments45 min readEA link
(www.utilitarianpodcast.com)

Why Work On Biose­cu­rity?

Lin BL26 Nov 2025 20:03 UTC
18 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Any in­ter­est in bac­te­riophages?

Charlie Dougherty4 May 2022 10:44 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

NAO Up­dates, Fall 2024

Jeff Kaufman 🔸18 Oct 2024 0:00 UTC
33 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Re­quest for feed­back on FIR EOI (Far-UVC pro­to­col)

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi14 Jan 2026 3:09 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Guard­ing To­mor­row: Longter­mism and the Fight Against Global Pan­demics By Adeyanju Temi­tope Andrew

Ade Beraka 22 Sep 2025 14:16 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Hear This Idea: Mon­rad and Pannu on Pan­demic Preparedness

jtm31 Oct 2022 14:33 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(hearthisidea.com)

Vac­cine Ob­struc­tion­ism Kills

Richard Y Chappell🔸1 Dec 2025 14:58 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

UVC air puri­fier de­sign and test­ing strategy

DirectedEvolution1 Jun 2022 5:35 UTC
27 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Oxford Biose­cu­rity Group: Fundrais­ing and Plans for Early 2025

Lin BL20 Dec 2024 20:56 UTC
33 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing Far-UVC: Blueprint Biose­cu­rity’s 266-Page Re­port, a Call for Feed­back, and Ex­cit­ing Ca­reer Opportunities

Juan Benzo🔸22 Mar 2025 14:29 UTC
68 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

[Linkpost] “In­ten­sity and fre­quency of ex­treme novel epi­demics” by Mar­i­ani et al. (2021)

QubitSwarm9928 Sep 2022 3:31 UTC
12 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Start an Up­per-Room UV In­stal­la­tion Com­pany?

Jeff Kaufman 🔸19 Oct 2024 23:43 UTC
38 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Assess­ing Near-Term Ac­cu­racy in the Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Per­sua­sion Tournament

Forecasting Research Institute2 Sep 2025 12:22 UTC
41 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(forecastingresearch.org)

Database of re­search pro­jects for vol­un­teers in food se­cu­rity dur­ing global catas­tro­phes (ALLFED)

JuanGarcia26 Sep 2024 19:39 UTC
47 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

ALLFED’s 2025 Highlights

JuanGarcia27 Nov 2025 10:21 UTC
57 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

How should we build meth­ods and tools to pre­pare for fu­ture pan­demics?

Sam Abbott13 Oct 2022 12:47 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(samabbott.co.uk)

De­tec­tion of Asymp­tomat­i­cally Spread­ing Pathogens

Jeff Kaufman 🔸5 Dec 2024 19:17 UTC
52 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

En­sur­ing Stable Power for Life-Sav­ing Re­search in Re­source-Limited Set­ting

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi8 Nov 2024 13:15 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Emer­gency call for ORCG sup­port: Miti­gat­ing Global Catas­trophic Risks

JorgeTorresC30 Apr 2025 19:31 UTC
69 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Shar­ing in­sights from my mas­ter’s work on the Global Health Se­cu­rity In­dex: seek­ing feed­back and re­search directions

Vincent Niger🔸25 Nov 2024 12:06 UTC
47 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Stop Think­ing about FTX. Think About Get­ting Zika In­stead.

jeeebz14 Nov 2022 19:32 UTC
177 points
5 comments11 min readEA link

4) A Case Study in Pan­demic Policy Failure: Covid-19 & Hu­man-to-Hu­man Transmission

PandemicRiskMan14 Feb 2024 13:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments8 min readEA link

How do you make a 250x bet­ter vac­cine at 1/​10 the cost? Develop it in In­dia.

Abhishaike9 Feb 2025 3:54 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.owlposting.com)

Ad­dress­ing face masks ex­piry date as low-hang­ing mini-cause area?

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)10 Mar 2025 18:19 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Pan­demic pre­ven­tion as fire-fight­ing by Richard Willi­am­son (Alvea.bio) for Works in Progress

Nick Whitaker8 Dec 2022 17:30 UTC
33 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.worksinprogress.co)

AI Safety in Biotech: Epi­tope De­sign for Phage and AAV Vac­cines in the Global South

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi16 Sep 2025 9:59 UTC
5 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

ALLFED’s 2024 Highlights

JuanGarcia18 Nov 2024 11:34 UTC
44 points
0 comments22 min readEA link

Why you should wear a mask at EAGs

Alex W Zhu2 Mar 2025 16:52 UTC
22 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

The Po­ten­tial for Wear­able Biomon­i­tor­ing to Strengthen Early De­tec­tion of NCDs and In­fec­tious Diseases in Vuln­er­a­ble Settings

Natalie Bauman1 Dec 2025 19:41 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the First Work­shop on the Eco­nomics of Pan­demic Preparedness

matteo3 Apr 2024 11:18 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Si­mu­lat­ing Ap­proaches to Me­tage­nomic Pan­demic Identification

Jeff Kaufman 🔸8 Apr 2024 19:54 UTC
25 points
7 comments2 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Scal­ing the NAO’s Stealth Pathogen Early-Warn­ing System

Jeff Kaufman 🔸2 Apr 2025 13:28 UTC
127 points
10 comments2 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

In­tro­duc­ing faruvc.org

Jeff Kaufman 🔸12 Nov 2025 17:28 UTC
28 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

“A Jour­ney Through the Virus”: Rais­ing pan­demic aware­ness through an au­dio­vi­sual miniseries.

Gabriela Yuliet12 Aug 2024 9:18 UTC
8 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Oxford Biose­cu­rity Group: Ap­pli­ca­tions Open and 2023 Retrospective

Swan 🔸6 Jan 2024 6:20 UTC
33 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Global Catas­trophic Biolog­i­cal Risks: A Guide for Philan­thropists [Founders Pledge]

christian.r31 Oct 2023 15:42 UTC
32 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(www.founderspledge.com)

Tech­nolog­i­cal Bot­tle­necks for PCR, LAMP, and Me­tage­nomics Sequencing

Ziyue Zeng9 Jan 2023 6:05 UTC
39 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

Aero­drop: far-UVC lamp giveaway

Austin26 Jan 2026 17:03 UTC
54 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(aerodrop.org)

Loop-me­di­ated isother­mal am­plifi­ca­tion (LAMP) for pan­demic pathogen di­ag­nos­tics: How it differs from PCR and why it isn’t more widely used

Julia Niggemeyer2 Sep 2024 0:17 UTC
21 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Seek­ing Guidance: Over­com­ing Re­jec­tion and Find­ing Sup­port in High-Im­pact Research

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi19 Jun 2024 4:10 UTC
25 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing Blood-Based Bio­surveillance, Part 3: The Blood Virome

ljusten13 Feb 2025 17:51 UTC
27 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

The First Gen­er­a­tive De­sign of Com­plete Viral Genomes Us­ing AI: A Review

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi18 Sep 2025 22:24 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Five ways to stop a bird->mink->hu­man H5N1 pandemic

DirectedEvolution10 Feb 2023 16:36 UTC
36 points
22 comments9 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Pan­demic & Epi­demic Threat Anal­y­sis Lab (PETAL) @ UC Berkeley

cwhittaker4 Sep 2025 20:06 UTC
30 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Could Adeno-As­so­ci­ated Virus (AAV) Vec­tors Be the Fu­ture of One-Shot, Long-Last­ing Vac­cines?

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi28 Aug 2025 14:11 UTC
10 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

#189 – How “mar­ket shap­ing” could help solve cli­mate change, pan­demics, and other global prob­lems (Rachel Glen­ner­ster on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours31 May 2024 12:21 UTC
18 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

Un­der­stand­ing the AMR Cri­sis: Im­pli­ca­tions for Biose­cu­rity and Pan­demic Preparedness

Kaeliora28 Jan 2025 14:10 UTC
16 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

A Po­ten­tial Cheap and High Im­pact Way to Re­duce Covid in the UK this Winter

Lawrence Newport28 Oct 2022 11:36 UTC
54 points
16 comments4 min readEA link

Why San­i­ta­tion Mat­ters for Global Health and Pan­demic Preparedness

Swan 🔸1 Oct 2025 13:41 UTC
16 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Why ex­perts are ter­rified of a hu­man-made pan­demic — and what we can do to stop it

EA Handbook11 Apr 2022 23:00 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

Bu­gout Bags for Disasters

Fin8 Mar 2022 17:03 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Read­ing sug­ges­tions for how reg­u­la­tory bod­ies can do bet­ter on vac­cine ap­proval in a pan­demic?

freedomandutility12 Nov 2022 23:38 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Pan­demic Pre­pared­ness: Stake­hold­ers who in­fluence poli­ti­ci­ans in the UK

Alexandra Malikova8 Dec 2022 22:15 UTC
19 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

You Should Get a Reusable Mask

Jeff Kaufman 🔸8 Oct 2025 2:42 UTC
114 points
23 comments1 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy’s Biose­cu­rity and Pan­demic Pre­pared­ness Team Is Hiring and Seek­ing New Grantees

Miriam_Hinthorn3 Oct 2025 17:13 UTC
23 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Can a pan­demic cause hu­man ex­tinc­tion? Pos­si­bly, at least on priors

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Jul 2024 17:07 UTC
29 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Rerun­ning the Time of Perils

William_MacAskill16 Dec 2025 16:04 UTC
62 points
57 comments9 min readEA link

EJOR spe­cial is­sue on role of op­er­a­tional re­search in fu­ture pandemics

wesg17 Aug 2022 13:34 UTC
21 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.sciencedirect.com)

Pan­demic pre­ven­tion in Ger­man par­ties’ fed­eral elec­tion platforms

tilboy19 Sep 2021 7:40 UTC
17 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Beyond Early Warn­ings—Op­por­tu­ni­ties for Pre­ci­sion Pan­demic Re­sponse Strategies

Axby2 Jul 2025 16:13 UTC
3 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

AISN#52: An Ex­pert Virol­ogy Benchmark

Center for AI Safety22 Apr 2025 16:52 UTC
6 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

Po­ten­tial Benefits of Im­ple­ment­ing High-Through­put Se­quenc­ing (HTS) Tech­nolo­gies for Pan­demic Pathogen De­tec­tion in Latin Amer­ica and the Caribbean

Gabriela Paredes12 Aug 2024 16:17 UTC
12 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

[Link] New Lancet study: Im­pact of the first year of COVID-19 vaccinations

Akhil29 Jun 2022 13:31 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.thelancet.com)

Anony­mous ex­perts on the best ways to fight pandemics

80000_Hours30 Sep 2024 8:47 UTC
19 points
0 comments15 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

We need to be hon­est with young peo­ple about biose­cu­rity careers

rjain 🔹19 Nov 2025 14:55 UTC
77 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

Overview of the Pathogen Bio­surveillance Land­scape

Brianna Gopaul9 Jan 2023 6:05 UTC
54 points
4 comments20 min readEA link

Per­sonal Pan­demic Preparedness

Alvin Ånestrand30 Jul 2025 20:06 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

In­ter­view sub­jects for im­pact liti­ga­tion pro­ject (biose­cu­rity & pan­demic pre­pared­ness)

Legal Priorities Project3 Mar 2022 14:20 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Strate­gies for effec­tive pathogen-ag­nos­tic bio­surveillance in the United States

ljusten6 Nov 2024 14:42 UTC
14 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(www.lennijusten.com)

Pre­dict­ing In­fluenza Abun­dance in Wastew­a­ter Me­tage­nomic Se­quenc­ing Data

Jeff Kaufman 🔸23 Sep 2024 17:27 UTC
26 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Ap­pli­ca­tions Open for the Next Cy­cle of Oxford Biose­cu­rity Group

Lin BL14 Apr 2024 8:03 UTC
25 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Scope-Sen­si­tive Biose­cu­rity Policy in France: An Op­por­tu­nity?

Alix Pham25 Jun 2024 12:08 UTC
28 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Oxford Biose­cu­rity Group 2024 Im­pact Eval­u­a­tion: Ca­pac­ity Build­ing (Sum­mary/​Linkpost)

Lin BL3 Feb 2025 7:31 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.oxfordbiosecuritygroup.com)

The pan­demic threat of DEEP VZN—notes on a pod­cast with Kevin Esvelt

Kei11 Apr 2022 11:52 UTC
43 points
1 comment17 min readEA link

Bill Gates book on pan­demic prevention

PabloAMC 🔸1 May 2022 10:42 UTC
25 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Car­rick Flynn Re­sults and Ad­di­tional Ideas for Pass­ing Pan­demic Preven­tion Policy

Peter18 May 2022 7:33 UTC
18 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

2024: a year of con­soli­da­tion for ORCG

JorgeTorresC18 Dec 2024 17:47 UTC
33 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(www.orcg.info)

3) Science Fails in a Pandemic

PandemicRiskMan8 Feb 2024 14:58 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readEA link

Speedrun: Develop an af­ford­able su­per PPE

Buhl7 Feb 2023 18:43 UTC
101 points
7 comments15 min readEA link

Avian flu: Birds, cows, and now a human

Shin2 Apr 2024 20:56 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com)

An­nounc­ing Biose­cu­rity Fore­cast­ing Group—Ap­ply Now

Lin BL23 Jan 2025 16:52 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Air Safety to Com­bat Global Catas­trophic Biorisks [REVISED]

G_Klw3 May 2023 18:25 UTC
60 points
3 comments6 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

An­nounc­ing New Biose­cu­rity In­ter­ven­tions Syllabus

Lin BL15 Jan 2024 20:53 UTC
48 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

PSA: Corsi-Rosen­thal Air Filters Are a Cheap and Effec­tive Way to Im­prove In­door Air Quality

Lauren Reid20 Jul 2022 23:45 UTC
16 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Don’t Let Other Global Catas­trophic Risks Fall Be­hind: Sup­port ORCG in 2024

JorgeTorresC11 Nov 2024 18:27 UTC
48 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Biose­cu­rity Re­sources I Often Recommend

Lin BL31 Jan 2025 18:28 UTC
22 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Case Rates to Se­quenc­ing Reads

Jeff Kaufman 🔸21 Sep 2022 2:00 UTC
32 points
3 comments4 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

Sen­tinel min­utes #6/​2025: Power of the purse, D1.1 H5N1 flu var­i­ant, Ay­a­tol­lah against ne­go­ti­a­tions with Trump

NunoSempere10 Feb 2025 17:23 UTC
40 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(blog.sentinel-team.org)

Every­day Clean Air

Jeff Kaufman 🔸15 Nov 2025 1:03 UTC
70 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

When the Lights go out on Science: A Per­sonal Reflec­tion on Months of Lost Phage re­search Due to Power Ou­tage

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi7 Nov 2024 16:05 UTC
18 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Pan­demic Pre­dic­tion Check­list: H5N1 (6/​14)

DirectedEvolution5 Feb 2023 14:56 UTC
70 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

The State of Metaculus

christian5 Feb 2025 19:17 UTC
17 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Re­port: Pro­pos­als for the pre­ven­tion and de­tec­tion of emerg­ing in­fec­tious dis­eases (EID) in Guatemala

JorgeTorresC22 Sep 2023 20:27 UTC
14 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

H5N1 - thread for in­for­ma­tion shar­ing, plan­ning, and action

MathiasKB🔸5 Feb 2023 11:08 UTC
202 points
44 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Does Fac­tory Farm­ing Make Nat­u­ral Pan­demics More Likely?

brook31 Oct 2022 12:50 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Perché gli es­perti sono ter­ror­iz­zati dall’idea di una pan­demia ar­tifi­ciale — e come pos­si­amo fermarla

EA Italy12 Jan 2023 3:04 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

Prevent­ing Catas­trophic Pan­demics – 80,000 Hours

EA Handbook18 Feb 2025 21:33 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Has any­one done re­search on why Covid-19 didn’t be­come a big­ger warn­ing shot for fu­ture pan­demic pre­ven­tion?

Peter5 Mar 2025 22:41 UTC
25 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Har­den­ing phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal re­sponse to pan­demics: con­crete pro­ject seeks pro­ject lead

Joel Becker9 Feb 2023 18:04 UTC
73 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

En­hanc­ing Global Biose­cu­rity with Phage Research

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi12 Sep 2024 16:17 UTC
10 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

5) We Can’t Solve Pan­demics Without Goals

PandemicRiskMan28 Feb 2024 18:30 UTC
1 point
0 comments7 min readEA link

How to pre­vent pan­demics and avert biorisks from syn­thetic biology

xander_balwit25 Aug 2024 16:26 UTC
29 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(press.asimov.com)

Five Tractable Biose­cu­rity Pro­jects You Could Start Tomorrow

Mslkmp31 Jan 2025 21:21 UTC
82 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Biosafety in BSL-3, BSL-3+ and BSL-4 Lab­o­ra­to­ries: Map­ping and Recom­men­da­tions for Latin America

JorgeTorresC22 Aug 2023 20:52 UTC
46 points
3 comments14 min readEA link
(riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com)

Phages and the Fu­ture of Global Health: An Over­looked Op­por­tu­nity for High-Im­pact Investment

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi29 Aug 2025 9:08 UTC
15 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
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