Filippa Lentzos Journalist Profile

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Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention

Dec 4, 2024 | armscontrol.org | Jez Littlewood |Filippa Lentzos

December 2024By Jez Littlewood and Filippa LentzosBy the end of this month, states-parties will be halfway through their latest attempt to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).
Building Trust Through Transparency in Biorisk Management

May 13, 2024 | nyas.org | Syra S. Madad |Filippa Lentzos

Blog Article Note: The reflections in this blog are of Dr. Syra Madad and Dr. Filippa Lentzos and do not represent the viewpoints of TAG-RULS DUR, the World Health Organization or The New York Academy of Sciences.
How to avoid human-made pandemics

Apr 10, 2024 | thebulletin.org | Filippa Lentzos |Jens H. Kuhn |John Mecklin

How do you pitch a news story about people agreeing rigorously with each other? That question was raised by a journalist during a report presentation at the UN by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Independent Task Force on Research with Pandemic Risks.
King's academic launches report to reduce pandemic threat posed by laboratories

Mar 4, 2024 | kcl.ac.uk | Filippa Lentzos

Dr Filippa Lentzos has launched a new report at the UN Headquarters in New York on the governance of high-risk pathogen research to safeguard populations from future pandemics. The report was developed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to examine the risks posed by scientific research on pandemic pathogens —bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms that are highly transmissible and capable of uncontrollable spread in human populations.
King's expert leads advisory group set up to enhance global health security

Feb 19, 2024 | kcl.ac.uk | Filippa Lentzos

Dr Filippa Lentzos has been appointed as the Chair of a World Health Organization (WHO) advisory group that aims to shape strategies on the responsible use of life sciences and dual-use research. Dr Lentzos, an expert in Science and International Security in the Department of War Studies at King’s, will lead the new Technical Advisory Group on the Responsible Use of the Life Sciences and Dual-Use Research (TAG-RULS DUR).
King's expert helps drive safe innovation in engineering biology

Oct 17, 2023 | kcl.ac.uk | Filippa Lentzos

A King’s academic with expertise in science and international security is working with the UK government to shape how advancements in engineering biology are governed. Representing King’s, Dr Filippa Lentzos from the Department of War Studies has been named one of the ‘champions of science’ on the Government’s UK Biosecurity Leadership Council, which aims to make the UK a world leader in responsible use of engineering biology.
Conducting public health workshops in Ukraine-under threat of missile attack

Sep 18, 2023 | thebulletin.org | Filippa Lentzos |Matt Field

A mural in Lviv, Ukraine, depicting the war. Credit: Filippa Lentzos. We drove across the border from the wide, modern motorways of Poland onto Ukraine’s single-lane, potholed backroads. Small villages dotted the landscape. Churches were everywhere, their golden onion-domes glistening in the morning sun. So were churchyards with freshly prepared graves, stark reminders of the on-going war.
Scientists concerned boom in labs handing deadly germs not matched by regulation

Mar 16, 2023 | inkl.com | Filippa Lentzos

But this boom has not been accompanied by sufficient oversight, raising biosafety and biosecurity concerns, the Global BioLabs Report 2023 added. Dr Filippa Lentzos, who is the author of the report, said: “We’re seeing rapid expansion of max containment labs in Asia but many of these countries score poorly on biorisk management.