A very successful convening on upscaling disease surveillance on the African continent!
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Proud Dad to Gabriele and Isabella. Professor and Senior Advisor, Pandemic Center, Brown University.
Pandemic Center at Brown University launches first report on Advance Warning and Response Exemplars (AWARE) covering Brazil, Kenya, South Africa & Vietnam with Africa CDC team, Addis Ababa.
Africa CDC launches its indicator based and wastewater surveillance strategies, Addis Ababa!
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What should be done about Iran's potential secret chemical and biological weapons programs?
The future course of the Iran conflict remained nearly as murky after President Donald Trump's address as it was the previous day. That's also true of the status of possible secret chemical and biolog...
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Africa’s children are being failed by the hospitals they depend on — a wake-up call | Daily Maverick
<p>A study paints a searing picture: the foundational infrastructure required to deliver safe, high-quality paediatric care is dangerously inadequate in African hospitals.</p>
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We’re thrilled to see our Senior Adviser, @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social, named in @vox.com ’s #FuturePerfect25. Her strategic vision and commitment to protecting the world from biological threats reminds us that smart investments in biosecurity saves lives. 2025 Movers & Shakers tinyurl.com/mssu6zwz
One of the best convenings I had the pleasure of attending - the G7 Global Partnership CBRN meetings Vancouver!
An afternoon of fine gospel. Episcopal Church, downtown Providence!
Such a pleasure to be with WHO science and biorisk management colleagues at closing WOAH ceremony, Geneva!
Making the case for greater investments in biosecurity, bio surveillance and pandemic response @WOAH Geneva with one-health partners.
With emerging leaders in biosecurity, Geneva Threat Reduction meeting hosted by WOAH!
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AI bioweapons risk presents our greatest challenge: surveillance state vs misuse
AI experts, Nobel Laureates, Fortune 500 CEOs, NGO leaders and leading academic gathered in Mexico to discuss how to intervene in a system to keep superintelligence safe without sacrificing the core v...
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Climate Services for Health #ACS2 with partners hosted by @rockefellerfdn.bsky.social at Addis Ababa!
Looking forward to a foundational strategy to line up climate services for health!
Looking forward to reading the great book on the big one!
With Sharon Peacock and Cambridge University colleagues taken in Darwin’s student quarters, Christ College.
Listening to superb commentary on biothreats today at Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risks.
Great visit to Germany’s Robert Koch Institute with Stefan Kloth.
During historic epidemics it is believed that apothecaries filled snowglobes with red water as an alert @neworleans.bsky.social
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Young people will be key to preventing the next pandemic
Global health forums like the World Health Assembly, where the pandemic agreement was recently approved, need to fully incorporate the voices and expertise of young people in the Global South, where 9...
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The Pandemic Agreement was officially adopted today at #WHA78. CEPI commends the commitment of countries and negotiators to advancing this once-in-a-generation opportunity to make the world a safer place. Read CEPI's statement welcoming the adoption of this historic Agreement ⬇️ bit.ly/4kpVwPL
CEPI statement on the adoption of the Pandemic Agreement | CEPI
CEPI welcomes the adoption of the Pandemic Agreement
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Consequences of US HIV/Aids funding withdrawal will be dire
A disruption of current HIV/Aids mitigation programmes in southern Africa will lead to decreased access to critical treatments and preventive therapies, which will in turn lead to increased mortality ...
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We support former Dep Sec of Defense Andy Weber call at the Asilomar Conference to make biological weapons obsolete!
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Trump and Musk breathe poison rather than oxygen into our political cultures
For the likes of Trump and Musk, human misfortune appears as if it is mere collateral damage in the longer-term effort to engineer their version of sustainable Western civilisation, on Earth as it wil...
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