COHORT-BASED COURSE
Biosecurity
Start building towards a pandemic-proof world: Understand current efforts to prevent, detect and respond to pandemic threats. Identify where you can contribute. Get funded to start building. All in 30 hours.
COHORT-BASED COURSE
Biosecurity
Start building towards a pandemic-proof world: Understand current efforts to prevent, detect and respond to pandemic threats. Identify where you can contribute. Get funded to start building. All in 30 hours.
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Who this course is for
Engineers and scientists who want to defend against pandemics.
Policy professionals who want to contribute to biosecurity policy.
Entrepreneurs who want to build new pandemic defences.
Don't fit these perfectly? Apply anyway. Some of our most impactful participants have included teachers, policymakers, engineers, and community leaders. We bet on drive and ambition, not CVs.
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How this course will benefit you
Take action in less than 30 hours
Skip months of scattered reading. This course gives you a structured overview of efforts to prevent, detect and respond to pandemics. Understand what works, what fails, and where the gaps are.
Join a network of builders
We're building a community of people who are energised to take ambitious actions to build a pandemic-proof world, including starting new companies, policy entrepreneurship, and high-impact research bets. Completing this course will give you access to this community.
Get funded to accelerate your impact
From small grants to build your portfolio, up to £50k to launch new organisations. We'll do whatever it takes to accelerate your journey.
Course information
Commitment
Each day or week, you will:
Complete 2-3 hours of reading and writing, and join ~8 peers in a 2-hour Zoom meeting to discuss the content.
Facilitator
All discussions will be facilitated by a biosecurity expert.
Price
This course is freely available and operates on a "pay-what-you-want" model.
Schedule
"[COVID-19] has been very severe … it has affected every corner of this planet. But this is not necessarily the big one."
"[COVID-19] has been very severe … it has affected every corner of this planet. But this is not necessarily the big one."
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