Early warning for pandemic preparedness is critical. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for improved ways to detect potential pandemics early.

Biotia is a startup building a platform leveraging genomics and AI to identify and characterize pathogens and their evolution. This can inform proactive public health response, and inform the design of diagnostics and vaccines.

Niamh O'Hara is the co-founder and CEO of Biotia (http://Biotia.io) which recently launched the Pathology Watchtower Program with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, Institute Pasteur & others... and the GeoSeeq platform (http://GeoSeeq.com) which is integrating climate science, genomics, and epidemiology to build a more equitable, healthier world.

NextMed Health is a unique cross-disciplinary program focused on catalyzing the future of health and biomedicine.
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