Sustainable Pharmaceutical Innovation for COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases

Sonja Marjanovic, director of Healthcare Innovation, Industry and Policy at RAND Europe, describes the critical success criteria for innovation in infectious disease, antimicrobial, and vaccine research and development.

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How to Best Enable Pharma Innovation Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis
May 26, 2020
Sonja Marjanovic @SonjaCambs, Carolina Feijao

Innovating in response to public health challenges like COVID-19 does not always align well with pharmaceutical industry commercial models or shareholder expectations. More sustainable and scalable ways of incentivizing innovation in response to infectious disease threats are needed.
A Stable Blood Supply Is Critical in the COVID-19 Era
Aug 27, 2020

Millions of lives depend on the U.S. blood supply. But no one knows exactly how much blood is in the system at any given time, or whether it's enough to meet demand. The federal government has no way to collect that data, and hospitals don't share it with each other. What can be done to strengthen the system?
It's Going to Be the Vaccination, Stupid!
Aug 21, 2020
Robert H. Brook, John J. Rydzewski

The increasingly positive news on COVID-19 vaccine development is also bringing growing alarm over whether Americans will trust these vaccines when they become available. While we were clearly not prepared for this virus, we now need to understand how we are going to roll out any proven vaccine.
Patients Should Have a Role in Deciding the Value of Medicines
Jul 10, 2020
Thomas W. Concannon @tconcannon, Lori Frank @LoriBethFrank

Patients, their family members, and the general public have historically been excluded from contributing to health care value assessment models. But methods for including patient voices in research are far less complicated or demanding than some researchers believe they will be.

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Sustainable Pharmaceutical Innovation for COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases

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How to Best Enable Pharma Innovation Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis

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