DR PARDIS SABETI: Planning for the next outbreak. Insights from a leading scientist on the front line

The Jax Jones and Martin Warner Show

She was one of the first Biologists IN THE WORLD to get the call when Covid-19 was discovered. In this podcast we discuss with Leading Computational Genetesist Dr Pardis Sabeti, how the Science world reacted to the virus, how politicians have fared, and what we all need to know if we're to deal with outbreaks in the future.z

ABOUT DR PARDIS SABETI

Dr. Pardis Sabeti is a rock star Harvard Biologist, a TIME Person of the Year, and has been dubbed the 'Ebola Detective' following her work at the centre of the outbreak in Sierra Leone. She's a computational genetesist and describes her work as 'in the most basic terms, natural selection' mapping the genome sequences of virus to determine how they behave, and how to fight them. Dr Sabeti is on the board of the BROAD Institute of Harvard and MIT.

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