Test Your Fit for Biosecurity With These Short-Term Project Ideas

Test Your Fit for Biosecurity With These Short-Term Project Ideas

Opportunity type
Independent project
Recurring opportunity
Cause areas
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Routes to impact
🧪 Testing Your Fit for a Certain Career Path
📖 Learning about Important Cause Areas
📈 Skill-Building & Building Career Capital
💡 Direct/Increased Engagement with EA
Relevant aptitudes
Conceptual & Empirical Research
Academia
Location
Remote
Description
Want to test your fit for biosecurity but aren't sure how? - Perhaps the general idea of working in biosecurity seems exciting but you are hesitant to apply to a full-time position or a 2-month summer program. Here is a well-composed a list of projects that can be completed without the need for a lab (a computer & internet access is required). These should take 10-15 hours total and will allow individuals to test their fit for biosecurity.  - List of projects:
  1. Conduct & write up a 2-page literature review on any of the following GCBR topics: Infectious Disease Surveillance, UVC, Indoor Air Quality, and PPE. 
  2. Conduct & write up a 2-page literature review of the existing biosecurity policy of any particular country. In particular, it would be helpful to do this with countries that have biosecurity programmes in their country.
  3. Conduct & write up a 2-page survey of the biggest supply chain shocks in the last 100 years, and what can we learn from them for GCBR resilience?
  4. Conduct a 2-page distillation of one of the biosecurity articles from this list. 
  5. Conduct a 2-page review of the labs in your university/local area that are working on biosecurity research. 
  6. Conduct a 2-page review of the history, current status, and potential future applications to global biological weapon nonproliferation/disarmament of one article on the biological weapons convention. - (See forum post for more details & specific examples of the projects) - If you would want to get further involved send an email to sofya.m.lebedeva@gmail.com with a PDF or Google Doc of your write-up & your CV. If you are interested in pursuing more biosecurity opportunities Sofya will use these short-term projects as a work sample and you can schedule a call together to discuss how to proceed with getting you involved in the field. 
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