In 2024 the WHO R&D Blueprint team launched the Collaborative Open Research Consortiums (CORCs) to support the Pathogens Prioritization Framework, bringing together a coordinated global research community to advance research across various priority pathogen families. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) leads the CORC on arenaviruses and bunyaviruses.
In July 2025 a global meeting of 170 experts was held to discuss the research priorities across the arenavirus family, which informed the development of the Arenaviridae research and development roadmap. This roadmap highlights primary challenges, research priorities, and time-phased milestones across the following themes: reservoirs and transmission, surveillance, viral family biology, diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccines, regulatory and clinical development, and social and behavioural science and community engagement.
The CORC has also collectively identified 10 R&D priorities across these themes.
You are invited to review the roadmap and input any feedback via this feedback form:
Please submit your comments by 6 April 2026 – date after which the public consultation will be closed.
For any specific questions, please get in touch with arena.corc@ukhsa.gov.uk.