an incomplete reading list, seeking suggestions

Since announcing my career change to working on biosecurity (Twitter thread), I've had a few people ask me for resources for learning more about (careers in) pandemic preparedness and biosecurity. Here are some resources that I've found helpful in my reading and exploration, in the hopes that they'll be helpful for you, too.

(living list, updated as I find more things)

Other reading Lists

• Chris Bakerlee's biosecurity reading list
• Greg Lewis's biosecurity reading list

Article-to-paper sized content

• 80,000 Hours's article on Reducing global catastrophic biological risks (and more 80k content)
• Open Philanthropy's 2014 cause report on biosecurity
• Andrew Snyder-Beattie's talk Biotechnology and Existential Risk at EA Global London 2017
• Andrew Synder-Beattie and Ethan Alley's Concrete Biosecurity Projects list
• relevant sections of the Future Fund's project ideas list
• proposals for early warning systems from the Council on Strategic Risks, David Ecker, and the Nucleic Acid Observatory
• Erik Minikel's How pharmaceutical industry financial modelers think about your rare disease
• Kevin Esvelt's "Inoculating science against potential pandemics and information hazards", in PLoS Pathogens
• The Apollo Program for Biodefense final report

Blogs and substacks

• De Novo, a substack by Metacelsus
• Construction Physics, a substack by Brian Potter
• ASeq, a substack by Nava Whiteford
• Jeff Kaufman's posts on sequencing, from working at the Nucleic Acid Observatory

Books

• The Precipice, by Toby Ord
• Deadliest Enemy, by Michael Osterholm and Mark Olshaker
• Biosecurity Dilemmas, by Christian Enemark
• The Dead Hand, by David Hoffman
• (for basic biology) Molecular Biology of the Cell, by Bruce Alberts et al.
• (for basic biology) Cell Biology by the Numbers, by Ron Milo and Rob Phillips

Long-form reports

• The WHO's Global guidance framework for the responsible use of the life sciences: mitigating biorisks and governing dual-use research

I'd love it if you sent other things my way! Comment section is open, and my email is too.

I'm not in a position to evaluate requests for funding. If you have other questions, or otherwise would like to chat, I'm generally happy to!