Eric Goosby and Ben Plumley reflect on an interview with Professor Peter Piot, recorded earlier this year, on how, against a backwash of climate disruption, defining global infectious diseases as security threats - can attract essential  financial and political resources - but can be counter-intuitive & counter-productive if thought of solely as another traditional security challenge. 

Professor Piot is a Belgian microbiologist, founding Executive Director of UNAIDS, former Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicjne. He now serves as Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission on COVID-19.

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