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Next steps for vaccine rollout, research and development - responding to new COVID-19 variants, supporting innovation, and encouraging research partnerships

March 2022


Price: £95 PLUS VAT
Format: DOWNLOADABLE PDF


This conference examined next steps for vaccine rollout, research, and development.


Areas for discussion included:


  • learning from the response to COVID-19
    • development of future vaccines and treatments
    • speed of rollout and response to new variants
    • uptake
    • public and private sector partnerships 
  • delivering a malaria vaccination programme - supply chain and global network utilisation, and lessons learned 
  • the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and widening accessibility
  • future vaccine policy, regulation, and industry action

We are pleased to have been able to include keynote sessions with Dr Doug Brown, Chief Executive, British Society for Immunology; Professor Andrew Ustianowski, National Clinical Lead, COVID Vaccine Research Programme, NIHR; and Consultant and Research Lead in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, North Manchester General Hospital; Professor Sir Brian Greenwood, Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; and Dr Alejandro Cravioto, Chair, Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation, World Health Organisation.


The conference was an opportunity for stakeholders to consider the issues alongside key policy officials who attended from DHSC; MHRA; UKHSA; Office for Life Sciences; Department of Health, NI; BEIS; DIT; FCDO; GLD; The Scottish Government; and the Welsh Government - as well as parliamentary pass-holders from the House of Lords and POST.



This pack includes

  • Dropbox video recording of the conference
  • PDF transcript of the discussion, including all speaker remarks and Q&A
  • PDFs of speakers' slide material (subject to permission)
  • PDFs of the delegate pack, including speaker biographies and attendee list
  • PDFs of delegate articles