PDR Podcast

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 th... more

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... more

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. 

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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 biosafe... more

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).

I sit down with Dr. Julie Fischer at Georgetown University to discuss her career path and ways in which we can begin to cultivate leaders in GHSA instead of capturing them in the wild.

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www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/healthprotection/... more

A conversation with Dr. Daniel Lucey comparing and contrasting the current Ebola epidemic in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the 2014 West Africa Ebola epidemic. We touch on advances made in vaccines, diagnostics, tr... more