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Matt Watson
@BioAndBaseball
Husband, Father. Working on #biosecurity policy & practice at Pilgrim.
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Honored and ready to build. 🇺🇸🧬
Excited to welcome Matt Watson (@BioAndBaseball) to Pilgrim to help lead our policy efforts!
Matt has spent more than 15 years working across biosecurity, pandemic preparedness, and national security. During COVID-19, he served as a senior advisor at @HHSGov, leading the development of the tools used to track hospital capacity nationwide and identify where the healthcare system was under strain.
At the Center for Health Security, he worked alongside Dr. D.A. Henderson, who led the global campaign that eradicated smallpox. He also directed Johns Hopkins’ Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity (ELBI) program, whose fellows have held leadership roles at the White House, DHS, CDC, In-Q-Tel, Anthropic, and OpenAI.
We’re thrilled to have Matt on board as we build the nation’s biodefense infrastructure! 🇺🇸View quoted post on X
BRING IT BACK!
“Even now, … most new cases are appearing outside the chains of transmission that health workers are tracking, and between one-third and two-thirds of deaths are occurring not in treatment centers but in people’s homes and communities.”
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www.nytimes.com Opinion | I’ve Worked in Congo for Decades. I’ve Never Seen an Ebola Crisis Like This. This outbreak was detected late, giving the virus a head start.