The R&D Preparedness Ecosystem: Preparedness for Health Emergencies

Overview

This paper responds to the request of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) to examine the current R&D architecture and ecosystem, and to identify progress and remaining governance challenges and gaps that are likely to impact R&D in a pandemic. It focuses on issues that influence research, development, manufacturing, deployment and access to medical countermeasures (vaccines, therapeutics) and necessary tools and commodities (diagnostics, PPE, ventilators etc), and it proposes actions and recommendations for GPMB to consider.