Preparing for a pandemic: highlighting themes for research funding and practice-perspectives from the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R)

Affiliations

¹ GloPID-R Secretariat, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. a.norton@ukcdr.org.uk.
² UK Collaborative on Development Research, London, UK. a.norton@ukcdr.org.uk.
³ GloPID-R Secretariat, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵ University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo, Ondo State, Nigeria.
⁶ APIN-Supported HIV Treatment Centre, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria.
⁷ Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK.
⁸ Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁹ Institute of Infection and Immunity Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Government of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
¹⁰ Wellcome, London, UK.
¹¹ European Commissions' Directorate-General for Research & Innovation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
¹² INSERM, Paris, France.

Alice Norton et al. BMC Med. 2020.

. 2020 Sep 8;18(1):273.

doi: 10.1186/s12916-020-01755-y.

¹ GloPID-R Secretariat, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. a.norton@ukcdr.org.uk.
² UK Collaborative on Development Research, London, UK. a.norton@ukcdr.org.uk.
³ GloPID-R Secretariat, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵ University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo, Ondo State, Nigeria.
⁶ APIN-Supported HIV Treatment Centre, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria.
⁷ Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK.
⁸ Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁹ Institute of Infection and Immunity Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Government of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
¹⁰ Wellcome, London, UK.
¹¹ European Commissions' Directorate-General for Research & Innovation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
¹² INSERM, Paris, France.

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Keywords: COVID-19; Clinical trials; Cohorts; Collaboration; Epidemic; Pandemic; Preparedness.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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