PDR Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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 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). 

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](https://www.who.int/features/2014/ebola-survivor-stories/en/)

[2014-2016 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa | History | Ebola (Ebola Virus Disease) | CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/history/2014-2016-outbreak/index.html)

[An Epidemic of Suspicion — Ebola and Violence in the DRC | NEJM](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1902682)

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)

[Digitalcongo.net | Le ministre de la Santé dresse la situation sur l’évolution de l’épidémie à virus Ebola dans les provinces du Nord-Kivu et de l’Ituri](https://www.digitalcongo.net/article/5c825c724813c5000431e377/)

[WHO | Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo](https://www.who.int/csr/don/7-march-2019-ebola-drc/en/)

[WHO expresses concern over damage to Ebola treatment facilities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | WHO | Regional Office for Africa](https://www.afro.who.int/media-centre/statements-commentaries/who-expresses-concern-over-damage-ebola-treatment-facilities)

[Statement on the October 2018 meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on the Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo](https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/17-10-2018-statement-on-the-meeting-of-the-ihr-emergency-committee-on-the-ebola-outbreak-in-drc)

[MSF warns of DRC Ebola response losing upper hand | CIDRAP](http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/03/msf-warns-drc-ebola-response-losing-upper-hand)

[Democratic Republic of Congo: Ebola Virus Disease - External Situation Report 31 - Democratic Republic of the Congo | ReliefWeb](https://reliefweb.int/report/democratic-republic-congo/democratic-republic-congo-ebola-virus-disease-external-situation-46)

https://www.who.int/immunization/interim_ebola_recommendations_feb_2019.pdf?ua=1