[Career review] “Pandemic prevention and biosecurity” by Aaron Gertler, Gregory Lewis

Explore how careers in biosecurity research, policy, and entrepreneurship can help reduce risks like engineered pandemics.

Narrated by AI.

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Outline:

(02:18) Recommended

(02:27) Review status

(02:32) Why work on pandemic prevention?

(02:37) It could save millions of lives

(03:32) It isnt very speculative

(04:23) There are many tractable approaches

(05:27) It doesnt require working on AI

(06:28) What does this path involve?

(07:39) Technical careers

(09:28) Policy careers

(11:00) Entrepreneurial and operations careers

(13:41) Other careers

(14:36) Could you be a good fit?

(14:40) The best backgrounds and skill sets

(19:24) What do you want from a job?

(21:05) Four ways to test your fit

(22:51) Guidance for experienced professionals

(23:51) Find jobs in pandemic prevention and biosecurity

(24:37) Learn more

(24:40) Top recommendations

(25:20) Other resources

(26:17) Further recommendations

The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration.

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First published:
October 19th, 2021

Last updated:
April 11th, 2023

Source:
https://80000hours.org/career-reviews/pandemic-prevention-biosecurity

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