Team

We are a diverse collective of individuals with expertise and experience in biomedicine, mathematics, public health, public policy, social science, and public advocacy all of whom agree that research that creates potential pandemic pathogens more dangerous than those in nature poses existential risks to the public and provides few, if any, benefits for science, medicine, public health, or national security. 

Biosafety Now believes the public is a crucial stakeholder in research that enhances potential pandemic pathogens (ePPP research), and therefore must have a seat at the table in assessing whether the benefits of research projects outweigh risks, and in determining whether, and, if so, under what conditions and with what precautions, ePPP research projects may proceed.

Biosafety Now is not political, but we do work with elected officials from across the political spectrum to advocate for policies to prevent lab-generated pandemics.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Megan Gafford

Megan Gafford

United States

M.F.A., painting and drawing; artist; writer

Richard Ebright

Richard H. Ebright

United States

Ph.D.; Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University; Lab Director, Waksman Institute

Tyler Stepke

United States

Graduate Student in Applied Physics, Johns Hopkins University

ADVISORY BOARD

biomedicine, mathematics

Andre Goffinet

Andre Goffinet

Belgium

M.D., Ph.D.; Emeritus Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, Univ. of Louvain Medical School

Harish Seshadri

Harish Seshadri

India

Ph.D.; Professor of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Neil Harrison

United States

Ph.D.; Professor of Pharmacology and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University

Valentin Bruttel

Germany

Ph.D.; CSO Toleris Biotherapeutics

Simon Wain-Hobson

United Kingdom

Ph.D.; Emeritus Professor of Virology; Institute Pasteur, Paris

Laura Kahn

Laura H. Kahn

United States

M.D., M.P.H., M.P.P.; Physician; Author; Educator; Consultant

Steve Phillips

Steven Phillips

United States

M.D.; Yale-trained Physician; Researcher; Author; Biotech Founder; In-demand Public Speaker

Robert R. Redfield

United States

M.D.; former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2018-2021)

public health, public policy

Marie Chevrier

United States

Ph.D.; Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Rutgers University-Camden

Elisa Harris

Elisa D. Harris

United States

Non-Resident Senior Researcher; Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland

Susan Wright

Susan Wright

United States

Ph.D.; Research Scientist and Lecturer Emerita in History of Science, University of Michigan

Colin Butler

Colin D. Butler

Australia

Ph.D.; Hon Prof of Public Health, Natl Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian Natl Univ

Kathryn Nixdorff

Kathryn Nixdorff

Germany

Ph.D.; Professor Emerita in Microbiology and Genetics, Darmstadt University of Technology

Malcolm Dando

Malcolm R. Dando

United Kingdom

Ph.D.; Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford

Matt Ridley

United Kingdom

Ph.D.; science writer, journalist

Eric Starbuck

Eric S. Starbuck

United States

DrPH, M.P.H.; former Senior Advisor for Child Health & Pandemic Preparedness, Save the Children

Andrew Noymer

United States

Ph.D.; Associate Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention, University of California, Irvine

social science, public advocacy

Nina and Steve Goodale

Nina & Steve Goodale

United States

Community Activists; Founders of the Bio Safety Working Group, Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter

Helen Mudler

Helen E. Mundler

France

Ph.D.; Associate Professor in English Studies, Université Paris-Est Créteil

Muneera Rasheed

Muneera A. Rasheed

Pakistan

Clinical Psychologist; Advocate for Justice and Equity in Global Health

Klare X. Allen

United States

Community Organizer, Founder of The Roxbury Safety Net and Stop the BU Bio Terror Lab

Dana Parish

Dana Parish

United States

Author; Health Reporter; Songwriter; Advisory Board Member, Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Yanna Lambrinidou

Yanna Lambrinidou

United States

Ph.D.; Affiliate faculty, Department of Science, Technology, and Society; Virginia Tech University

Rick Sheridan

Rick Sheridan

United States

BS,Aerospace Engineering; MBA; head of EMSKE Phytochem

AFFILIATES

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