Rapid Medical Countermeasure Response to Infectious Diseases: Enabling Sustainable Capabilities Through Ongoing Public- and Private-Sector Partnerships: Workshop Summary by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Health and Medicine: Infectious Disease, Health and Medicine: Public Health and Prevention, Health and Medicine: Global Health
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2016-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

Prioritizing Investment

At the workshop there was broad recognition that many threats exist, with only limited financial resources to address these threats. Hundreds of thousands of viruses exist, and it is impossible to prepare for all of them, Swerdlow of CDC said. A participant summarized that “we are either paralyzed to inaction because there are too many threats and we don’t know where to start, or we are busy dealing with the threat of the moment.” Pavia added that we need to consider how prepared is prepared enough: What basic science is needed; what regulatory reforms are required; what stage of development should products be taken to; and what platform-based technologies are needed to fulfill an even cost–benefit ratio? However, he acknowledged that if the funding to answer these questions is not available, if the FDA does not work on regulatory pathways, if partnerships cannot be established in the interepidemic period, none of these things will happen at the rate that a response demands.

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