Biosecurity: Changing the Game

Biosecurity: Changing the Game
Podcast Description
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.
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Focuses on critical topics within biosecurity including emerging epidemics, bioterrorism, pathogen economies, and international governance, with episodes featuring insights on innovative early-warning systems and historical shifts that have shaped biosecurity discussions.

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.
In the third and final part of this conversation, Dr. Dinah Nasike, Dr. Alex Kyabarongo (a veterinarian, former Political Affairs Intern at the Biological Weapons Convention, and currently a Masters of Biodefense Candidate at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University) and Sandra Matinyi (Biosecurity Game Changers Fellow and the Executive Director of Nuo Bioscience, Uganda) conclude their discussion of the Biological Weapons Convention.
Links for more information:
- ScienceDirect
- Siege of Caffa
- British Forces in North America
- Germany’s Anthrax Horses
- Japan’s Unit 731 (1930s–1945)
- Rajneesh Cult and Salmonella
- What is dual-use research of concern?
- The German BW Program
- The Japanese BW Program
- The Soviet Biological Weapons Program and Its Legacy in Today’s Russia
- U.S. Biological Warfare and Biological Defense Programs
- The Impact of Biological Warfare in the Cold War Era – AMO
- 1925 Geneva Protocol – UNODA
- Nuo Bioscience
- The Youth for Biosecurity Initiative – UNODA
- Dual-Use Research | NIH Office of Intramural Research
- Mirror Life Science
- The BWC Confidence-Building Measures
- Revolutionizing the Biological Weapons Convention: Integrating Science Diplomacy for Global Security | Science & Diplomacy
- Implementation Support Unit – UNODA
- Biowarfare, bioterrorism and biocrime: A historical overview on microbial harmful applications – ScienceDirect
- Scythian Wars
- iGEM
- The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)

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