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Responding to and recovering from COVID-19:Global Health Security is a phrase that I’m hearing daily in my world. What does it mean? How do we accomplish it? As we start to come out of what has been a life-altering pandemic and the focus for the past 1.5 years has been almost exclusively on this huge global crisis that is still wreaking havoc around the world, how do we proceed? It’s easy to think that once we have been vaccinated that we can resume our lives, but even if everyone was vaccinated tomorrow, would simply resuming our lives leave us equally vulnerable to the next health threat? We have put so much time, money, and energy into getting on top of this pandemic. The retooling of factories to compensate for deficiencies in testing supplies, the collaboration and incredible amounts of money that went into the fastest vaccine development ever, and the health inequity we have revealed globally will have been in vain should be just simply return to ‘normal.’The previous lack of preparation contributed greatly to the large number of deaths and I believe that I speak for everyone when I say that we need to guarantee that we are not ever that unprepared again. But, how do we do that? Once the immediate threat has diminished, how do we keep enough attention on the topic that we don’t drop the ball? How do we protect the low and middle-income countries that encounter these outbreaks far more often that we do? These questions are ones that the Texas Global Health Security Innovation Consortium (TEXGHS) has been thinking about for the past 1.5 years.We have built a network of experts, innovators, advisors, investors, and just plain ‘helpers’ to try to keep the focus where it belongs and to forge relationships that will aid in implementation of needed resources. While I am on the founding team of TEXGHS, the founders are who you will be inspired to hear from on this subject. Drs. Lisa McDonald and Andrew Nerlinger spearheaded the organization upon being quarantined in their home in Austin, TX. They are usually traveling the world in support of their company, Pandemic Tech, which supports innovations in these more vulnerable countries. This time, the U.S. also needed the support. I invite you to listen to them talk about it in our latest episode of the Science in the Mall, Y’all podcast. (Even if the topic doesn’t interest you, they are ridiculously charming to listen to.)Nancy LyonInterim DirectorListen on your favorite platform:YouTube // Acast // SoundCloud // Spotify // iTunes // Google Play // Stitcher

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The Global Health Security Innovation Week 2021 is the world's first conference focused on bringing together the health security and technology innovation communities to define and communicate today's most pressing challenges in preventing, predicting, detecting, and responding to global health security threats.

Organized by TEXGHS and the Global Health Security Network, GHS Innovation 2021 will emphasize the importance of locally driven innovation in emerging ecosystems (LMICs) and will promote  equitable access to technologies and resources for ensuring health security in all communities.  Together participants will create a roadmap and a call to action for innovators to solve the most pressing current and future challenges in global health security.

A neuro-imaging researcher turned entrepreneur, Nandita Shetty has experience across academia, corporate, start-ups and the social sector. Nandita started her career as a software developer, went on to become a brain researcher and has most recently been focusing on the commercialization of medical innovations. She has worked in the field of Traumatic Brain Injury at UT SouthWestern Medical Centre and Autism Spectrum Disorders at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She has held operational and executive roles at startups in the oncology, food tech and neurodevelopment diagnostics space. Her current role includes Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Lactation Lab, founding team member at the TEXGHS and she also serves as an advisor to an award winning NGO Pardada Pardadi Educational Society based out of India.

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. As a means of supporting the life science industry in Central Texas and their newest instrument, Luminex has placed an xMAP Intelliflex at the Incubator. They are excited to introduce new users to their amazing platform technology, opening access to our member companies. We will host a workshop/training session in September and will be extending an invite to our Austin area network.

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ABI & partners launch a consortium to support innovators fighting COVID-19 and future pandemics

The Texas Global Health Security Innovation Consortium (TEXGHS) is a consortium between academia, public sector, and private sector partners to coordinate efforts to support companies working towards pandemic preparedness and response in Texas.

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