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science

Pulling Back The Curtain
Science News, August 2024

science

Africa’s New Force in Genomics
Science News, August 2024

The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin
New York Times, July 2023

BBC

Animals at the Wuhan Market
BBC World Service (podcast), March 2023

What Are Raccoon Dogs?
New York Times, March 2023

Tracking SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Resources
Nature Methods, March 2023

Interview with Worobey, Andersen & Holmes: The Lab Leak
Decoding the Gurus (podcast), March 2023

In the bubble

The Origins of COVID-19 (with Kristian Andersen)
In the Bubble w. Andy Slavitt (podcast), September 2022

tribune

San Diego County Detects its First Omicron Case
San Diego Union Tribune, December 2021

BBC

Covid Origins: The Science
BBC News (podcast), September 2021

Atlantic

How Zika Conquered The Americas
The Atlantic, May 2017

Atlantic

How Ebola Adapted To Us
The Atlantic, November 2016

Genetic Sleuthing
Harvard Gazette, September 2015

Viral Evolution – The History Of Lassa virus
Nature Reviews Genetics, September 2015

De Slår Ebola Og Lassa Ihjel
Politiken [Danish], September 2015

The Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs Of 2014
Wired.co.uk, December 2014

Ebola: Jagten På Patient Zero I Sierra Leone
Politiken [Danish], September 2014

TheScientist

Ebola Outbreak Strains Sequenced
The Scientist, August 2014

Commentaries on Papers and Scientific Topics

Vox

The Bird Flu Doom Loop
Vox, July 2024

tribune

COVID-19 Cases Rising in San Diego
San Diego Union Tribune, June 2024

science

A Spiking Fever
Science, February 2024

tribune

COVID-19 Activity Remains Elevated in San Diego County
San Diego Union Tribune, August 2022

HBO

How to Survive a Pandemic
HBO (TV Documentary), April 2022

In the bubble

The Country That Decided the Pandemic Is Over (with Kristian Andersen)
In the Bubble w. Andy Slavitt (podcast), February 2022

tribune

Pandemic Shows Signs of Slowing in San Diego
San Diego Union Tribune, September 2021

Why It’s So Tricky to Trace the Origin of COVID-19
National Geographic, September 2021

Covid Isn’t Going Away. So What Now?
New York Times, August 2021

science

Evolving Threat
Science, August 2021

The_New_Yorker

How Will The Coronavirus Evolve?
The New Yorker, August 2021

Atlantic

Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us
The Atlantic, December 2020

NewYorkTimes

The U.K. Coronavirus Variant: What We Know
New York Times, December 2020

Atlantic

How Science Beat the Virus
The Atlantic, December 2020

Atlantic

The Fog of the Pandemic Is Returning
The Atlantic, September 2020

DR

Deadline – July 23, 2020
DR Deadline [Danish], July 2020

BBC

Wuhan: City of Silence
BBC News, July 2020

NewYorkTimes

How the Virus Won
New York Times, June 2020

BBC

The Anatomy of a Pandemic
BBC News, June 2020

Rolling-Stone

The President and the Plague
Rolling Stone, April 2020

weekendavisen

Tyst og Balstyrisk
Weekendavisen [Danish], March 2020

Science-Friday

Looking to the Genome to Track and Treat the New Coronavirus
NPR Science Friday (podcast), March 2020

Science-Friday

How To Track And Stop The Spread Of The Coronavirus Outbreak
NPR Science Friday (podcast), January 2020

scienceVS

Coronavirus Outbreak: How Scared Should You Be?
Gimlet Media – ScienceVS (podcast), January 2020

Atlantic

The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready?
The Atlantic, July 2018 (on background)

The Ebola Questions
Nature News, October 2014

lancet

Obituary – Sheik Humarr Khan
The Lancet, August 2014

Videos

Outsmarting Emerging Pathogens in an Interconnected World
Talk: Virtual Front Row, 2020
Kristian Andersen

Outsmarting Outbreaks: Using Genomics to Track Viruses
Talk: Front Row, 2019
Kristian Andersen

A Conversation with Dr. Kristian Andersen
Interview: Supervisor Jim Desmond, 2020
Kristian Andersen

Genomic Epidemiology – Zika Virus
Talk: Future of Genomic Medicine, 2017
Kristian Andersen

San Diego Lab Takes ‘Open Science’ Approach
Interview: KPBS, 2017
Nate Grubaugh

The 2014 Ebola Outbreak & The Risk Of Future Pandemics
Talk: EMBL, Science and Society, 2015
Kristian Andersen