biothreat
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10 + 10 Over 10: A Funding Vision for the U.S. Fight Against Biological Threats
By Andrew Weber and Yong-Bee Lim Operation Warp Speed – the program of major U.S. government investments that drove the rapid development of multiple vaccines for the COVID-19 virus – teaches us a lesson about how to fund the fight against biological threats in the future. That lesson is about establishing a vision of significant,…
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Biden Administrative Initiatives and the American Rescue Plan: Notable Investments Against Bio Threats
By Yong-Bee Lim and Bill Beaver Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, significant challenges remain on how to contain and learn lessons from a disease that has infected 110 million people and contributed to almost 2.5 million deaths worldwide. Adequate testing, including the acquisition of sufficient amounts of reagents for running tests, continues to…
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RELEASE: The Council on Strategic Risks and Sandia National Laboratories Issue New Report on Lessons from COVID-19 for Stopping Biological Threats
Washington, DC and Livermore, CA, February 24, 2021 — The COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to take devastating tolls on America and the world, with hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of infections in the United States alone. In August 2020, the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) and Sandia National Laboratories convened public and private…
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We’re Hiring: Biosurveillance Consultants
The Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) seeks to hire 2-3 consultants to work on biological threat early warning and biosurveillance. The person in this role will work closely with CSR’s CEO, Christine Parthemore, and others from CSR’s Janne E. Nolan Center. Students (at the graduate level or with relevant undergraduate-level knowledge), recent graduates, and professionals…
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The Biden Administration & Biothreats: Week One
By William Beaver After stepping away from the podium on Inauguration Day, President Biden got to work on fulfilling campaign promises, including re-establishing a productive working relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO), which is essential amid the deadliest pandemic in the last century. The president also made commitments to stopping a broad range of…
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Interview with CSR Board Member Robert Palay: COVID-19 Has Shown the World How Serious Biothreats Are
This interview is part of a series in which Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) & Center for Climate and Security (CCS) interns interview members of the CSR and CCS Advisory Boards, along with other key voices in the security field. In today’s post, Isabella Caltabiano interviews Robert Palay, member of the Council on Strategic Risks…
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Preparing for the Next Pandemic: A Scenario Exercise
By Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü The following is a hypothetical future scenario that revolves around possible international efforts to counter another pandemic. It is by no means supposed to be a blueprint for an international response mechanism. Nevertheless, the author hopes that it will provide both food for thought, and impetus for the international community to…