WHO hosted the 3rd COVID- 19 Global research and innovation forum, 24-25 February, 2022 between 13:00 - 18:00 (on both days) Central European Time (CET) .
For this, a background document was prepared as an updated report from the previous Achievements report released in April 2021. It looks back to bring a spotlight to the global effort on COVID-19 according to 15 research areas. It details the successes, priority research and lessons learned that are critical in the next phase of the pandemic. Crucially the report provides insights on the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, and applying them to propose future priorities. The underlying principle is that a comprehensive research and innovation effort should continue to be at the core of pandemic response and of any efforts to be better prepared.
The Forum looked forward to review future priorities through the lens of over 100 leading research scientists, experts, policy makers and donors worldwide who contributed their views through scientific presentations and discussions, including keynote presentations and panel discussions on how research can help to end this pandemic and prepare for future pandemics.
The Forum agenda, the recording and the presentations made are available below. A Forum report will be available and posted shortly.
RECORDING
PRESENTATIONS - DAY 1
- COVID-19 research and innovation: Powering the world’s pandemic response – now & in the future
- Epidemiology of COVID-19, focusing on past and current trends, drivers of transmission and severity, and epidemiological research gaps
- Increasing risks at the human-animal interface: Research needs for risk reduction and prevention
- A virologist perspective on what are the first steps in pandemic preparedness research
- Virus natural history, transmission, and diagnostics
- Building a Sequencing Revolution: Enabling Research & Policy Through Diverse Tools
- How evolutionary biology has contributed to monitor this pandemic: GISAID’s perspective on what additional research is needed for this and for future pandemics
- Outbreaks should be detected and prevented at an early stage: A hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence
- Novel diagnostics to inform better strategies for prediction, prevention, detection, and control of pandemic diseases
- Research on public health and social measures and their impact
- Infodemiology – Progress on the public health research agenda for managing infodemics
- Do we need more vaccines, new vaccines, or better vaccines?
- Vaccines: research and development priorities
- Advancing the COVID-19 clinical care pathway: outbreak research response centered around the patient
- The ONE HEALTH approach: how research in this area helps us prepare for future pandemics?
- Ethics at the frontline of pandemics
- Gender issues: critical research for future pandemic preparedness
PRESENTATIONS - DAY 2
- Investments in primary health care and research: why are they important for pandemic preparedness?
- People and disease control measures: what do we need to understand?
- Moving from rhetoric to reality: placing communities at the centre of health emergency readiness and response
- IPC research during the pandemic: pointing to an opportunity for saving lives and money
- The patent maze of COVID vaccines and treatments
- Working to increase access to, and facilitate the development of, COVID life-saving medicines and vaccines in the LMICs
- Ethics and research
- Regulatory Science Convergence in response to a global Public Health Emergency
- WHO International Units – a common language in evaluation of the immune response to vaccines for pandemics
- The researcher’s perspective - How can research contribute to improve pandemic preparedness?
- Implementing large, simple, global platform trials for vaccines & therapeutics during a pandemic
- How to incorporate research into routine data collection systems: The experience of the Western Cape public health department
- Closing remarks and next steps
