# Marc Lipsitch

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Forecasting the Future of Covid

Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Marc Lipsitch is director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and scientific director of the new CDC Center for Forecasting and Outbreak A‮…

CD258: Gain of Function Research

On August 3rd, Senate Republicans held a hearing examining gain of function research: its possible role in creating the COVID-19 pandemic; the problems with oversight of this dangerous research; and recommendations to Congress for how to fix those problems. Episode Transcript Please Support Congre‮…

#9 Marc Lipsitch: How to ethically prevent the next pandemic

In this episode, we speak with Marc Lipsitch, epidemiologist and professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, about what lessons we should take from the COVID-19 pandemic, what role research should play in mitigating and p‮…

Harvard's Marc Lipsitch on the New White House Policy Regulating Risky Pathogen Research

This week, we saw Dr. Anthony Fauci being grilled by an angry congress over, among other things, the origin of COVID-19, which is estimated killed at least 25 million people.  He was asked about how the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which he directed until 2022, funded ris‮…

#425 — Are We Prepared for the Next Pandemic?

Sam Harris speaks with Marc Lipsitch about pandemic preparedness. They discuss what we learned from Covid, loss of trust in institutions, how to effectively communicate scientific information in the current media landscape, vaccine hesitancy, the safety of mRNA vaccines, the origins of Covid, gain‮…

Covid-19: Where We Go From Here

Well into the COVID-19 pandemic, countries continue to grapple with managing the virus while restoring economic activity. Where the virus will go from here, what that means for the economy and markets—and how the vaccine outlook might impact everything—is Top of Mind. In this episode, Allison N‮…

EAG 2017 Boston: Preventing catastrophic risks by mitigating subcatastrophic ones (Marc Lipsitch)

Many of the catastrophic risks about which effective altruists concern themselves are likely to result from the failure to control much smaller events, which then grow so large that they do become catastrophic. I will describe examples from infectious diseases – a paradigm case of a growing risk –‮…

Marc Lipsitch on Playing Pandemic Roulette in the Lab

Yascha Mounk and Marc Lipsitch also discuss how worried we should be about Hantavirus and Ebola. Marc Lipsitch is the Berberian Professor at Stanford University, with appointments in Infectious Diseases, Biology, and the Center for International Security and Cooperation. In this week’s conversat‮…

Coronavirus: Fears and Facts

The new coronavirus continues to spread around the world, and it’s already killed several people in the U.S. People are starting to worry that this will turn into a full-blown pandemic. So how many of us could ultimately get infected — and is it time to prepare for the worst? To find out, we talk ‮…