Are you considering conducting a vaccine trial? Are you looking for groups to collaborate with? Do you want to let others know that you would like to collaborate with another group?

The ongoing establishment of The Global Health Network's 'COVID-19 Working Groups' aims to address the discussion and gather consensus on the emerging COVID-19 research gaps across low-resource settings. This working group is set up to work around ways to enable COVID-19 vaccine development.

Over 150 researchers from across the globe working or wanting to work in vaccines have come together in this group to discuss ideas, form collaborations, access funding as well as share outputs and resources that others can use. There is so much experience that can be applied here - let's use that to help this immediate need to supporting research everywhere there are cases, now!

Current work

On the 10th June 2020, The Global Health Network supported the first virtual team meeting for the ‘Vaccines Open Working Group’. The meeting was organised in response to questions raised in COVID-19 workshops which highlighted the need for greater discussion around vaccine development within this COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Position paper: highlighting priorities related to vaccine development and deployment.

Following this first meeting, team leaders met on the 29th of July (minutes here) and decided to start writing the outline of the discussion paper. The coordinatos then met again on the 22nd of August, where they discuss and agreeed on the final outline. Given the speed and current status of vaccine developmetn and deployment, coordinators continued to meet and update and refocus the aim of the paper.

Coordinators have now finished writing the discussion paper in January 2020 and it has been submitted to TGHN mid February 2020 for review. 

An update on this will be posted soon.

Vaccines Research Resources

As part of the COVID-19 Research Implementation Hub,
on this page you will find links to key resources and tools to enable robust vaccine trial design during the COVID-19 outbreak, as well as the latest information regarding ongoing vaccine trials and potential COVID-19 vaccines.

 

Working Documents

Here you are able to find all the working documents from the different WGs for you to comment on; 

Become a part of this Working Group

If you are interested, please register with us and we will be in touch!

We look forward to hearing back from you and hope we can work together to support a strong and equitable global research response during this pandemic.