The Asia Centre for Health Security (ACHS) Webinar Series held quarterly, features a diverse group of experts, including leading academics and healthcare professionals, to discuss and share innovative developments in health security in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from top-tier speakers, participate in Q&A sessions, and network with peers and thought leaders in the field.
Studying viruses with outbreak potential is one productive approach to combat the risk of pandemics. Yet, such research – when it involves field collection and experimental manipulation of pathogens – carries the hazard of accidentally or even intentionally seeding a pandemic. Dr Filippa Lentzos from King’s College London, will discussed her findings from the Pathogen Project, which brought together an international taskforce of scientists, biosecurity and public health experts, ethicists, and civil society leaders to seek consensus on this question: Can we agree on ways to manage research that carries pandemic risk as safely, securely and responsibly as possible?
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Asia Centre for Health Security is headquartered in the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore.
The centre also partners with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at the Nanyang Technological University.