PDR Podcast: Recent Episodes
Taylor Winkleman
Welcome to the PDR Podcast, where we discuss all things prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks around the globe, whether naturally occurring, accidental, or intentional. The PDR Podcast is produced and maintained by Dr. Taylor Winkleman, current Coordinator of the Next Generation Global Health Security Network.
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 talkPotluckKeep those hands offYour pen...an enemy weaponHey boy friend
Your talk may killAttack 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).
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.
Sources:
https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/healthprotection/gdd/stories/india-_diarrhea_on_run.html
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, treatments, and how the lessons learned from the West Africa epidemic are being applied, as well as the challenges faced by a region in conflict.
Show Notes:
WHO | Stories of Ebola survivors
2014-2016 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa | History | Ebola (Ebola Virus Disease) | CDC
An Epidemic of Suspicion — Ebola and Violence in the DRC | NEJM
Congolese Ministry of Health Twitter: @MinSanteRDC
https://www.who.int/emergencies/crises/cod/drc-ebola-srp-v20190219-fr.pdf?ua=1 (National Plan to Combat Ebola)
WHO | Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo
MSF warns of DRC Ebola response losing upper hand | CIDRAP
https://www.who.int/immunization/interim_ebola_recommendations_feb_2019.pdf?ua=1