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.

UK announces early warning system for pandemics

Agustín Covarrubias 🔸6 Nov 2024 16:56 UTC

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(www.gov.uk)

Fønix: Bioweapons shelter project launch

Ulrik Horn14 Jun 2022 3:44 UTC

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

Jeremy15 Nov 2022 16:23 UTC

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(dam.gcsp.ch)

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

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(www.jiscmail.ac.uk)

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

freedomandutility11 Jan 2023 23:06 UTC

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4 comments1 min readEA link

A Framework for Technical Progress on Biosecurity

kyle_fish3 Nov 2021 10:57 UTC

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Three Reasons Early Detection Interventions Are Not Obviously Cost-Effective

Conrad K.21 Apr 2024 21:05 UTC

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4 comments16 min readEA link

Announcing Alvea—A COVID Vaccine Project

kyle_fish16 Feb 2022 13:50 UTC

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25 comments2 min readEA link

Critical Review of Modelling Strategies against Pandemics

Jérémy Andréoletti🔸7 Oct 2024 11:18 UTC

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Map of Biosecurity Interventions

James Lin30 Oct 2022 18:25 UTC

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Sample Prevalence vs Global Prevalence

Jeff Kaufman 🔸8 Jul 2024 21:01 UTC

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Testing Genetic Engineering Detection with Spike-Ins

Jeff Kaufman 🔸22 Oct 2024 17:20 UTC

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(naobservatory.org)

Securing Civilization Against Catastrophic Pandemics

Jeff Kaufman 🔸3 Nov 2023 19:33 UTC

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(dam.gcsp.ch)

Pandemic apathy

Matthew Rendall4 May 2024 15:41 UTC

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

ASB5 Feb 2022 21:18 UTC

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

BiosecurityMaven232 Oct 2024 12:50 UTC

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Antimicrobial Surfaces For Pandemic Prevention?

Conrad K.7 Apr 2024 8:45 UTC

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Day Zero Antivirals for Future Pandemics by Brian Wang

xander_balwit26 Aug 2024 15:30 UTC

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(www.asimov.press)

NPR’s Indicator on WHO funding and pandemic preparedness

Eevee🔹19 Mar 2022 1:37 UTC

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(www.npr.org)

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

Eduardo26 Nov 2022 13:42 UTC

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[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

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New EU Authority for Pandemic Preparedness

Yassin Alaya17 Nov 2021 20:57 UTC

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How we failed

Jan_Kulveit23 Mar 2022 10:08 UTC

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[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

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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

What are the biggest misconceptions about biosecurity and pandemic risk?

80000_Hours29 Feb 2024 14:52 UTC

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(80000hours.org)

Antiviral photodynamic therapy seems underfunded

freedomandutility31 Jul 2022 15:55 UTC

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Pardis Sabeti on the Sentinel system for detecting and stopping pandemics

80000_Hours29 Jul 2021 16:36 UTC

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Cost-effectiveness of epidemic/pandemic preparedness

Vasco Grilo🔸30 Jun 2024 13:37 UTC

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

Vasco Grilo🔸10 Sep 2024 17:02 UTC

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How many people die from the flu? (OWID)

Lizka24 Oct 2022 21:54 UTC

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(ourworldindata.org)

[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

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(www.bloomberg.com)

Introducing the new Riesgos Catastróficos Globales team

Jaime Sevilla3 Mar 2023 23:04 UTC

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(riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com)

Forecasting accidentally-caused pandemics

JoshuaBlake17 Jan 2024 19:36 UTC

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(blog.joshuablake.co.uk)

List of Lists of Concrete Biosecurity Project Ideas

Tessa A 🔸16 Jul 2022 15:57 UTC

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

Open Philanthropy12 Jul 2022 7:38 UTC

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How can economists best contribute to pandemic prevention and preparedness?

Rémi T22 Aug 2021 20:49 UTC

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Air Safety to Combat Global Catastrophic Biorisks [OLD VERSION]

Jam Kraprayoon26 Dec 2022 16:58 UTC

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(docs.google.com)

Anonymous experts on the best ways to fight pandemics

80000_Hours30 Sep 2024 8:47 UTC

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(80000hours.org)

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

Gabriela Yuliet12 Aug 2024 9:18 UTC

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Air Safety to Combat Global Catastrophic Biorisks [REVISED]

Gavriel Kleinwaks3 May 2023 18:25 UTC

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(drive.google.com)

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

christian.r31 Oct 2023 15:42 UTC

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(www.founderspledge.com)

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

PandemicRiskMan14 Feb 2024 13:54 UTC

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5) We Can’t Solve Pandemics Without Goals

PandemicRiskMan28 Feb 2024 18:30 UTC

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Enhancing Global Biosecurity with Phage Research

emmannaemeka12 Sep 2024 16:17 UTC

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

emmannaemeka19 Jun 2024 4:10 UTC

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Scope-Sensitive Biosecurity Policy in France: An Opportunity?

Alix Pham25 Jun 2024 12:08 UTC

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Predicting Influenza Abundance in Wastewater Metagenomic Sequencing Data

Jeff Kaufman 🔸23 Sep 2024 17:27 UTC

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(naobservatory.org)

Oxford Biosecurity Group: Applications Open and 2023 Retrospective

Swan 🔸6 Jan 2024 6:20 UTC

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Avian flu: Birds, cows, and now a human

Shin2 Apr 2024 20:56 UTC

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(yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com)

Announcing the First Workshop on the Economics of Pandemic Preparedness

matteo3 Apr 2024 11:18 UTC

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Simulating Approaches to Metagenomic Pandemic Identification

Jeff Kaufman 🔸8 Apr 2024 19:54 UTC

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(naobservatory.org)

Applications Open for the Next Cycle of Oxford Biosecurity Group

Lin BL14 Apr 2024 8:03 UTC

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Announcing New Biosecurity Interventions Syllabus

Lin BL15 Jan 2024 20:53 UTC

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

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Jul 2024 17:07 UTC

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#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

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How to prevent pandemics and avert biorisks from synthetic biology

xander_balwit25 Aug 2024 16:26 UTC

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(press.asimov.com)

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

JuanGarcia26 Sep 2024 19:39 UTC

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Start an Upper-Room UV Installation Company?

Jeff Kaufman 🔸19 Oct 2024 23:43 UTC

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NAO Updates, Fall 2024

Jeff Kaufman 🔸18 Oct 2024 0:00 UTC

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(naobservatory.org)

Strategies for effective pathogen-agnostic biosurveillance in the United States

ljusten6 Nov 2024 14:42 UTC

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(www.lennijusten.com)

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

emmannaemeka7 Nov 2024 16:05 UTC

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

emmannaemeka8 Nov 2024 13:15 UTC

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

brook31 Oct 2022 12:50 UTC

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

JorgeTorresC11 Nov 2024 18:27 UTC

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Case Rates to Sequencing Reads

Jeff Kaufman 🔸21 Sep 2022 2:00 UTC

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(www.jefftk.com)

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

Lauren Reid20 Jul 2022 23:45 UTC

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Bill Gates book on pandemic prevention

PabloAMC 🔸1 May 2022 10:42 UTC

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

Kei11 Apr 2022 11:52 UTC

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EJOR special issue on role of operational research in future pandemics

wesg17 Aug 2022 13:34 UTC

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(www.sciencedirect.com)

Pandemic Preparedness: Stakeholders who influence politicians in the UK

Alexandra Malikova8 Dec 2022 22:15 UTC

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Bugout Bags for Disasters

Fin8 Mar 2022 17:03 UTC

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Stop Thinking about FTX. Think About Getting Zika Instead.

jeeebz14 Nov 2022 19:32 UTC

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

QubitSwarm9928 Sep 2022 3:31 UTC

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(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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

jtm31 Oct 2022 14:33 UTC

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(hearthisidea.com)

Carrick Flynn Results and Additional Ideas for Passing Pandemic Prevention Policy

Peter18 May 2022 7:33 UTC

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

Legal Priorities Project3 Mar 2022 14:20 UTC

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

Akhil29 Jun 2022 13:31 UTC

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(www.thelancet.com)

Pandemic prevention in German parties’ federal election platforms

tilboy19 Sep 2021 7:40 UTC

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

EA Handbook11 Apr 2022 23:00 UTC

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(www.vox.com)

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

freedomandutility12 Nov 2022 23:38 UTC

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

Lawrence Newport28 Oct 2022 11:36 UTC

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

Nick Whitaker8 Dec 2022 17:30 UTC

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(www.worksinprogress.co)

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

Sam Abbott13 Oct 2022 12:47 UTC

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(samabbott.co.uk)

UVC air purifier design and testing strategy

DirectedEvolution1 Jun 2022 5:35 UTC

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[Question] Any interest in bacteriophages?

Charlie Dougherty4 May 2022 10:44 UTC

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

Gus Docker22 Feb 2022 15:04 UTC

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(www.utilitarianpodcast.com)

Technological Bottlenecks for PCR, LAMP, and Metagenomics Sequencing

Ziyue Zeng9 Jan 2023 6:05 UTC

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Overview of the Pathogen Biosurveillance Landscape

Brianna Gopaul9 Jan 2023 6:05 UTC

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H5N1 - thread for information sharing, planning, and action

MathiasKB🔸5 Feb 2023 11:08 UTC

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Pandemic Prediction Checklist: H5N1 (6/14)

DirectedEvolution5 Feb 2023 14:56 UTC

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Speedrun: Develop an affordable super PPE

Buhl7 Feb 2023 18:43 UTC

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Hardening pharmaceutical response to pandemics: concrete project seeks project lead

Joel Becker9 Feb 2023 18:04 UTC

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

DirectedEvolution10 Feb 2023 16:36 UTC

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

JorgeTorresC22 Sep 2023 20:27 UTC

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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

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

EA Italy12 Jan 2023 3:04 UTC

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(www.vox.com)

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

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3) Science Fails in a Pandemic

PandemicRiskMan8 Feb 2024 14:58 UTC

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

JorgeTorresC22 Aug 2023 20:52 UTC

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3 comments14 min readEA link

(riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com)

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