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🌏 rani (Resilience Action Network International) is a global advocacy network to build societal resilience to health, climate, and economic shifts.

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🔔TODAY! Are you in New York for #UNGA? Kick off UNGA week with @rani.co at our annual Network Social TODAY, Sunday, 20 Sept., from 17.30-19.30 ET. Grab yourself a drink, meet our team, and say hi to friends and partners!

⚡ Register and see you there!
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September 20, 2026 at 3:06 PM
rani.co
Over five days at #IGWG8, @who.int Member States sought to advance the #PABS Annex – but no major breakthrough emerged. Complex discussions continued on how pathogen data would flow through the system and how benefits would be enforced.

Key takeaways 🧵👇🏼
September 19, 2026 at 4:37 AM
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pandemiccenter.bsky.social
We’re thrilled to announce our new cohort of Fellows! Supported by @carnegie.org, this program builds biosecurity expertise by placing Fellows with leading global organizations to reduce biothreats.

Read our full release ⤵️
pandemics.sph.brown.edu/news/2026-09...
Backed by an Award from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the Brown Pandemic Center Launches a New Fellowship to Advance Global Biothreat Reduction, New Cohort Announced
pandemics.sph.brown.edu
September 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
rani.co
In the @rani.co Playbook: Shared Ambition 🌟 The compromise challenge #MFF 💶 @rani.co at #UNGA81 📅 #UNHLM #PPPR around the corner 📜 Gains and gaps #Ebola 📈 Expectations in check #IGWG8 8️⃣ & more! mailchi.mp/rani/shared-...
September 11, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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cepi.net
This week we hosted a landmark pandemic simulation exercise with Indonesia's Ministry of Health to strengthen national and regional readiness against a future ‘Disease X’.

Discover more:
Indonesia steps up Southeast Asia’s outbreak preparedness with pandemic simulation exercise
Over 120 experts working across the vaccine and epidemic preparedness research ecosystem in Indonesia and the region are taking part in the table-top event in Jakarta.
cepi.net
September 4, 2026 at 11:18 AM
rani.co
⚡️ Register now! Join @rani.co @theelders.bsky.social @theindpanel.bsky.social 22 Sept. at #UNGA81 for a high-level discussion on redoubling commitments to international partnerships and thinking differently on investing for our shared #resilience and stability.

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September 3, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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gvagrad-ghc.bsky.social
🚨Less than one week left to register for our webinar: Access to Health Products for Ebola-Bundibugyo: Implications for the #PABS Annex

🗓️ 8 September | 13:30–15:00 CEST
📍Online

REGISTER NOW 👉 bit.ly/4cm55hk

#GlobalHealth #WHO #PandemicAgreement
September 3, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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coregroup.bsky.social
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱 is seeking experts to join its 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹 (𝗧𝗔𝗣) and help shape investments in pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response.

📅 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: September 18, 2026
🔗 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲: www.thepandemicfund.org/who-we-are/t...
September 2, 2026 at 3:28 PM
rani.co
In the @rani.co Playbook: Back to School 📚 Back to the budget #MFF 💶 #Ebola at 100 days #100DM 🚨 @rani.co at #UNGA81 📅 Calls to honour commitments UNHLM #PPPR 📜 #PABS new season #IGWG8 🏃🏽‍♀️‍➡️ @ranafrica.org growing footprint 🌍 Back on the agenda #BiotectAct 📑 & more!

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August 27, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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cepi.net
100 days into the Bundibugyo emergency, the global health response has moved at a pace unimaginable a decade ago. Yet the outbreak is far from contained. It's painful proof that in a deadly epidemic, even faster than ever is often not fast enough.

➡️ Read more on our website:
100 days into the Bundibugyo emergency, unprecedented speed is still not enough
The first 100 days of the Bundibugyo outbreak show how far epidemic response has advanced and how far it still has to go. It's painful proof that in a deadly epidemic, even faster than ever is often n...
cepi.net
August 25, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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⚡️ Kick off #UNGA81 with partners and the @rani.co team at the annual Network Social on Sunday, Sept. 20 from 17.30-19.30 ET.

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August 20, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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UN MS must 'build on the progress, principles and pledges made since COVID-19. Dangerous pathogens have proved time and again that we must build stronger systems & simply cannot afford to retreat.' RH Helen Clark @theindpanel.bsky.social #FriendsofthePPPRHLM

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August 20, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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cepi.net
Do existing vaccines against Zaire ebolavirus generate immune responses to Bundibugyo ebolavirus?
New studies to test whether existing Ebola vaccines can generate immune responses to Bundibugyo ebolavirus
CEPI-backed studies will analyse blood samples from thousands of people who have already been vaccinated against Zaire ebolavirus, with first results expected within months.
www.cepi.net
August 20, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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centerforhealthsecurity.org
🚨 Training opportunity 🚨

We are now accepting applications for our #ELBI Fellowship Class of 2027.

Don't miss your chance to join this prestigious network and contribute to the future of global #healthsecurity.

Apply by September 30th: centerforhealthsecurity.submittable.com/submit/35106...
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Submission Manager
centerforhealthsecurity.submittable.com
August 14, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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helenbranswell.bsky.social
With @drtedros.who.int projecting DRC's #Ebola outbreak is on track to eclipse the 2014-16 West African outbreak, #WHO is finalizing a Phase 3 vaccine trial protocol it hopes DRC regulatory officials will green light. Likely to start with Merck's Ervebo vaccine. www.statnews.com/2026/08/12/e...
Talks on launch of clinical trial of Ebola vaccine in DRC advance, WHO says
Talks are underway between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the WHO to expedite the start of a multi-armed Phase 3 clinical trial of Ebola vaccines.
www.statnews.com
August 12, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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nti.org
As protein design tools and other biological AI models become more capable of designing novel biological components and systems, the mechanisms to prevent misuse have not kept pace.

To safeguard this technology, NTI has developed an input screening method for AI-enabled protein design tools.
AI Can Design New Proteins. It's Time to Build Real Biosecurity Guardrails
As protein design tools and other biological AI models become more capable of designing novel biological components and systems, the mechanisms to prevent misuse have not kept pace.
www.nti.org
August 11, 2026 at 3:43 PM
rani.co
"Pandemic preparedness is one of the smartest investments we can make – not only for health, but for global stability, economic resilience, and collective security," urge The Pandemic Fund's Dr. Mekdes Daba, @chatibbasri.bsky.social, and Priya Basu.

www.thepandemicfund.org/news/op-ed/p...
Pandemic Preparedness Is an Investment in Health, Security, and Economic Stability | The Pandemic Fund
www.thepandemicfund.org
August 11, 2026 at 4:02 PM
rani.co
As @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social shares the Final Text of the Political Declaration for the UN HLM on #PPPR, the Friends of the PPPR HLM – co-convened by @theelders.bsky.social @fourpawsint.bsky.social @theindpanel.bsky.social @rani.co – flag 4 key gaps and urge an infusion of urgency + ambition.
August 6, 2026 at 10:08 PM
rani.co
⚠️ Scientists used #AI to make new viruses in a major first. But with this comes the need to put in critical #biosecurity safeguards as @centerforhealthsecurity.org's Dr. Moritz Hanke underscores to ensure medicine and technology advance while keeping society safe.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 6
Breaking News: Scientists have used A.I. to create new viruses for the first time, raising hopes for medical advances while also raising the possibility that the technology could someday be used to invent dangerous pathogens.
This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature
Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.
nyti.ms
August 6, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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cepi.net
The first participant has been dosed in a CEPI-backed Phase 1 trial of Moderna's investigational vaccine against Bundibugyo virus, marking rapid progress in the global effort to combat the deadly Ebola outbreak in DRC.

Read more: cepi.net/modernas-bun...
A healthy adult participant, Susan Murray, receives the first dose in Moderna’s Phase 1 clinical trial in Canada evaluating mRNA-1469, an investigational vaccine candidate against Bundibugyo ebolavirus, in Truro, Nova Scotia, on August 3, 2026
August 4, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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🔥The climate crisis is on 'overdrive' with the @wmo-global.bsky.social saying we are likely seeing a prelude rather than a peak. Through October, nearly every land area on 🌍 is expected to be hotter than normal with UN leadership calling for urgent action. ⚡️ healthpolicy-watch.news/climate-cris...
Climate Crisis In 'Overdrive' As Fossil Fuels Fan El Niño, UN Chief Warns - Health Policy Watch
"This is only a warm-up act," he said. "El Niño is strengthening, adding fuel to a planet already on fire with scorching heat domes, apocalyptic wildfires and
healthpolicy-watch.news
August 3, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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thinkglobalhealth.org
As the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak worsens, Ranu Dhillon and Jean-Vivien Mombouli draw on their experience leading Guinea’s 2014-16 Ebola outbreak response to provide valuable insights for interventions.
Using Guinea's Approach to Contain Ebola in the DRC  | Think Global Health
Negotiating access, earning trust, and building a tightly coordinated response are essential to stopping transmission, according to two advisors of Guinea's 2014-16 Ebola response
www.thinkglobalhealth.org
July 28, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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healthpolicywatch.bsky.social
Ahead of pandemic negotiations from 14–18 September, HPW is publishing two contrasting pathogen-sharing options: Africa’s Federated Model & the European Union’s Hybrid Model.

✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social
@consilium.europa.eu @civicusalliance.bsky.social @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social
Pandemic Talks: What Are The Two Models For Sharing Pathogens? - Health Policy Watch
Two practical – and contrary – proposals were tabled at pandemic talks last week, detailing how information about dangerous pathogens should be shared. Health
healthpolicy-watch.news
July 28, 2026 at 1:45 PM
rani.co
Following the 42-day monitoring period, Uganda declared the end to the 2026 #Ebola #bundibugyo outbreak. Minister of Health Dr. Baryomunsi attributed success to continued investment and strengthened public health #preparedness, lab capacity, #surveillance, and joint efforts.

health.go.ug/news/
News - Ministry of Health - Uganda
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health.go.ug
July 28, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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thebulletin.org
Matt Field @mattyfield.bsky.social reports that while plenty of hurdles remain for anyone hoping to use fast-improving AI to develop a bioweapon, one expert notes, 'Where we will find ourselves a year from now is likely to be, without intervention, a much more risky circumstance.'"
AI executives worry about their technologies aiding bioterrorists. How likely is that?
Plenty of hurdles remain for anyone hoping to use fast-improving AI to develop a bioweapon, but, as one expert notes, "Where we will find ourselves a year from now is likely to be, without…
thebulletin.org
July 27, 2026 at 3:04 PM