Listen "Pandemics: learning from the past – anticipating the future"
Episode Synopsis
We hit the ground running in the COVID pandemic: EU support for scientific research helped projects develop responses rapidly and effectively. Which may be just as well. Avian influenza is having a devastating impact on bird populations and has been passed onto mammal populations.
Getting funding to where it can be most effectively used, understanding the mechanisms behind public perception and behaviour, and gathering a living archive of viruses used by the scientific community across the world – this episode we are looking at the innovations which are ready to support responses to what might be coming next.
Marina Brito is a business strategic relations officer based at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Portugal. Máire Connolly is professor of Global Health at the University of Galway’s College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. They are joined by professor of Health Biotechnology and Virology at Aix-Marseille University in France, Bruno Coutard, the coordinator of the European Virus Archive, which identifies, collects and distributes viruses and related, non-infectious materials for the scientific community.
For more info on the projects featured, visit: https://europa.eu/!TP6BG9
Getting funding to where it can be most effectively used, understanding the mechanisms behind public perception and behaviour, and gathering a living archive of viruses used by the scientific community across the world – this episode we are looking at the innovations which are ready to support responses to what might be coming next.
Marina Brito is a business strategic relations officer based at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Portugal. Máire Connolly is professor of Global Health at the University of Galway’s College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. They are joined by professor of Health Biotechnology and Virology at Aix-Marseille University in France, Bruno Coutard, the coordinator of the European Virus Archive, which identifies, collects and distributes viruses and related, non-infectious materials for the scientific community.
For more info on the projects featured, visit: https://europa.eu/!TP6BG9
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