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Pandemics have the potential to cause significant, and perhaps unprecedented, harm. We believe natural pandemics represent one of the biggest current risks to global welfare and stability, and the risks from engineered pandemics — whether via accidents or misuse — may grow in the future. We’re interested in supporting the strengthening of disease surveillance, the governance of dual use research, policy development, or other activities that could reduce the threat of a major global disruption. We see relatively little philanthropic support in this area, and believe that philanthropy may have an important role to play, distinct from that of government.
For more on why we chose biosecurity and pandemic preparedness as a focus area, see our public cause report (January 2014), used in our process for selecting focus areas.
Illustrative grants
A complete list of our grants in the area of biosecurity and pandemic preparedness can be found here. Grants include:
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Biosecurity Program Support
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — Biosecurity, Global Health Security, and Global Catastrophic Risks
Andrew Snyder-Beattie
Andrew Snyder-Beattie leads Open Philanthropy’s work on biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. Andrew was previously Director of Research at the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), University of Oxford, where he managed a number of research, recruitment, and fundraising activities. Before that he was a project manager at FHI, and a researcher at a personalized medicine startup. He studied zoology at the University of Oxford, where he wrote a Ph.D./DPhil dissertation focused on problems related to existential risk. He holds an MS in biomathematics from North Carolina State University and is an alumnus of the Johns Hopkins Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative.
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