Optimising global frameworks for pandemic relevant research

Speaker: Dr Alice Norton, Pandemic Sciences Institute

Abstract

This talk will consider both the existing and developing global frameworks and mechanisms for pandemic relevant research. Alice will present insights from her group’s research on relevant policies and practices relating to research governance, research prioritisation, research funding and translation of research into practice in the pandemic preparedness and response field. This work will be positioned alongside the ongoing developments in the global pandemic preparedness landscape (such as the pandemic fund and pandemic agreement) to consider the future implications for research in this field.

Bio
Alice is an Associate Professor, leading the PSI Policy and Practice Research Group. Alice’s group undertakes applied research on the design and implementation of policy and practice for pandemic preparedness and response. Alice is also Scientific Director for the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R), undertaking research and policy development to support global research funders in their preparedness and response to infectious diseases. Alice is also PI for the Pandemic PACT programme and previous Head of the COVID-19 Research Coordination and Learning Initiative (COVID CIRCLE), tracking research funding and identifying research needs to inform action in collaboration with key stakeholders including global research funders, and Academic & Policy Lead for the Africa Pandemic Sciences Collaborative, working with the Science Foundation of Africa and Mastercard Foundation on Pandemic Sciences. Alice teaches on and is a Course Advisor for the International Health and Tropical Medicine Masters course and is a member of the Oxford Policy Engagement Network Steering Group. Alice is also currently working as an external expert on the World Bank’s evaluation of their last 20 years of investments in pandemic preparedness.

Members of the university only.

Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Organiser contact email address: alison.lewis@ndph.ox.ac.uk