PDR Podcast Taylor Winkleman

This week we sit down with SynthRITE team and winners of last year's BIO Competition Gayatri Sanku, Sunshine Lucky Go, and Jarjieh Fang. Building an international team and writing a proposal is a hard thing to do well, so we sat down with the team that did it best last year to find out what the magic ingredients are. Turns out, it's not magic- just hard work. Have a listen.

Below are the sources we reference in the episode: 

BIO Competition announcement: https://www.nti.org/newsroom/news/nti-and-nextgen-ghs-network-launch-4th-annual-next-generation-biosecurity-competition/

Publicly available SynthRite proposal: https://media.nti.org/documents/SynthRITE.pdf

Nextgen Page: https://ghsanextgen.wixsite.com/home/nti-biosecurity-competition-1

https://ghsanextgen.wixsite.com/home/podcast

https://twitter.com/nextgenghs

Covid Can I Do It: https://covidcanidoit.com/US/all

In this episode, we sit down with NTI's Jessica Bell to discuss the Global Health Security Index, the current coronavirus pandemic, the upcoming Bio Competition, and, of course, all things Prevent, Detect, Respond. 
Links: 
World Economic Forum Article (Intro)
Global Health Security Index

In this week's episode, we talk to historian and Augusta University professor Dr. Ruth McClelland-Nugent about connections between the current COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons we can learn from World War 2 public messaging. 

References: 

Introduction from: Britain Can Take It: The British Cinema in the Second World War, New Edition (Cinema and Society), by Tony Aldgate and Jeffrey Richards

Introduction from: We’ll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema During World War II by Robert McLaughlin and Sally E. Perry

Amplifer call for art: https://community.amplifier.org/campaign/global-open-call-for-art/

Churchill “Their Finest Hour” speech

Churchill “The Few” speech

Stock media: Pond5

“I’ll Be Seeing You” performed by Scheele’s Greene, Music by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Irving Kahal

Images: 

Careless talk     Potluck     Keep those hands off     Your pen...an enemy weapon     Hey boy friend     

Your talk may kill     Attack on all fronts  

In this special episode, Taylor and co-producer Jess talk to Dr. Jonathan (Jono) Quick, author of The End of Epidemics and Professor at Duke University.  Data presented in the episode was collected from Johns Hopkins University. 

This week we do our very first remote interview. Our guest is Ms. Ana Izar (Twitter: @a_izar) of the UN Office of Disarmament Affairs Bioweapons Convention (UNODA-BWC) about the very first Global South in Biosecurity Workshop, biosecurity and biosafety, and the importance and relevance of the Bioweapons Convention today. 



Links: 

Atlas Obscura (from intro): https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/banjawarn-station

For more information: 

H5N1 Gain of Function Experiments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKrh9NGwW1w&feature=youtu.be

Biorisk Management: https://youtu.be/gZR2piRiMKY

This episode, we sit down with Smithsonian Museum of Natural History curator Dr. Sabrina Sholts (Twitter: @SabrinaBSholts) and talk about the Outbreak Exhibit currently on display at the museum (2018-2021).