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?
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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.
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List of projects:
- Conduct & write up a 2-page literature review on any of the following GCBR topics: Infectious Disease Surveillance, UVC, Indoor Air Quality, and PPE.
- 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.
- 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?
- Conduct a 2-page distillation of one of the biosecurity articles from this list.
- Conduct a 2-page review of the labs in your university/local area that are working on biosecurity research.
- 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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