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What are we learning from COVID-19 and how can we prepare for a future pandemic?As global coronavirus cases rise and we experience a second wave, there is an increasing need to address biopreparedness and response for hospitals. Join us on this episode as the Senior Director of the System-wide Special Pathogens Program at NYC Health + Hospitals, Dr. Syra Madad, walks us through the current efforts being undertaken to make hospitals better prepared for a global crisis like the one w...

In our last panel from Nextopic: Future of Pandemics, we will be learning about the various efforts it takes to eradicate a disease. Why are vaccines important and when can we realistically expect one? Is there such a thing as disinfecting too much? Find out all the answers now. Here are Distributed Bio, Centivax, and VivaVax's biotech entrepreneurs Dr. Jacob Glanville, Sarah Ives, and Julia Peng on a panel once again moderated by health and science journalist Dr. Nazli Senyuva.

These days we are all anxious about contracting COVID-19 from any surface we touch. Some of us even use hand sanitizer after every single thing we touch, so in this chaos how will we reach some semblance of normality? Find out the answer biotech entrepreneur Julia Peng as she lays down the latest facts on how long the coronavirus lasts on various surfaces and talks about her work on creating a long-lasting antiviral coating as the co-founder and CEO of VIvaVax.

It’s been almost a year since we’ve been introduced to COVID-19 and since that day we’ve all been asking ourselves the same thing: When and how does this pandemic end? One possible solution is the discovery of therapeutic antibodies for the novel coronavirus and one startup stands out in the race to find them: Distributed Bio. In this episode the co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jacob Glanville takes us on a mission to end this and all future pandemics. From his experiences growing up in Guatemal...

Is it possible to create a universal vaccine?⁠ If yes, this will change the lives of thousands if not millions of people. Find out the answer from immune engineer extraordinaire Sarah Ives, the Director of Contract Research for Distributed Bio. Sarah and her research are featured prominently in the chilling Netflix docuseries "Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak". Her talk from Nextopic takes us through the journey to create the Centivax broad-spectrum flu vaccine.

Join us on this sub-session from Nextopic: Future of Pandemics, where digital epidemiologist Dr. Jennifer Radin, fake news researcher Dr. Khudejah Ali, and emergency medicine doctor Dr. Adnan Hussain come together in a panel moderated by health and science journalist Dr. Nazli Senyuva to discuss what it takes to contain a pandemic from a technological, medical, and media perspective.