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Selected
- Owning the Problem. Essay. Monrad, 2025.
- How to Secure the DNA Supply Chain. IFP. Schmitt, Monrad, 2026.
- Promoting versatile vaccine development for emerging pandemics. Science. Monrad, Sandbrink, Cherian, 2021.
- Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against COVID-19. Science. Brauner, Mindermann, Sharma et al (incl. Monrad), 2021.
- Preventing pandemics is not just a scientific challenge. Financial Times. Monrad, 2020.
Craft
- Owning the Problem. Essay. Monrad, 2025.
Biosecurity
- How to Secure the DNA Supply Chain. IFP. Schmitt, Monrad, 2026.
- Why We're Doubling Down on Synthesis Screening. Sentinel Blog. Schmitt, Monrad, 2026.
- Why We're Betting on AI-Bio Security and Governance. Sentinel Blog. Qureshi, Schmitt, Monrad, 2025.
Academic
- Supply, then demand? Health expenditure, voting, and vaccine hesitancy predict state-level COVID-19 vaccination rates. Vaccine. Monrad, Quaade, Powell-Jackson, 2022.
- Seasonal variation in SARS-CoV-2 transmission in temperate climates. PLoS Computational Biology. Gavenčiak, Monrad, Kulveit et al, 2022.
- Mask-wearing in community settings reduces SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Leech, Rogers-Smith, Monrad et al, 2022.
- A dataset of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-CoV-2 in Europe. Scientific Data. Altman, Ahuja, Monrad et al, 2022.
- Reciprocal Scoring: A Method for Forecasting Unanswerable Questions. Preprint. Karger, Monrad, Mellers, Tetlock, 2022.
- Promoting versatile vaccine development for emerging pandemics. Science. Monrad, Sandbrink, Cherian, 2021.
- Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against COVID-19. Science. Brauner, Mindermann, Sharma et al (incl. Monrad), 2021.
- Understanding the effectiveness of government interventions in Europe's second wave of COVID-19. Nature Communications. Sharma, Mindermann, Brauner, Bhatt et al (incl. Monrad), 2021.
- Rapid proliferation of pandemic research: implications for dual-use risks. mBio. Musunuri, Sandbrink, Monrad, Palmer, Koblentz, 2021.
- How social relationships shape moral wrongness judgments. Nature Communications. Earp, McLoughlin, Monrad, Clark, Crockett, 2021.
- Racial justice requires ending the war on drugs. The American Journal of Bioethics. Earp, Lewis, Hart et al (incl. Monrad), 2021.
- Medical Student Assessment of Pediatric Patient Pain as a Function of Perceived Child Gender. JAMA Network Open. Reardon, Earp, Andreski, Monrad, Cohen, Freed, 2021.
- Ethical considerations for epidemic vaccine trials. Journal of Medical Ethics. Monrad, 2020.
- Biosecurity, biosafety, and the management of dangerous pathogens for public health research. Viral Sovereignty and Technology Transfer (Cambridge University Press). Monrad, Katz, 2020.
- Gender bias in pediatric pain assessment. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. Earp, Monrad, LaFrance, Bargh, Cohen, Richeson, 2019.
Letters
- Reporting accidents at laboratories must be universal practice. Financial Times. Manheim, Monrad, 2021.
- Preventing pandemics is not just a scientific challenge. Financial Times. Monrad, 2020.
- Enforced vaccination risks empowering the sceptics. Financial Times. Monrad, 2019.
- Trump's regressive trade moves will not level the playing field. Financial Times. Monrad, 2019.
- We should not be running the errands of madmen. Financial Times. Monrad, 2017.
- Reckless use of antibiotics on animals that aren't sick. Financial Times. Monrad, 2017.