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ReviewMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2022

Global challenges in preparedness and response to epidemic infectious diseases.

Piero Olliaro, Els Torreele

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Review in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Evaluating a Research Training Program in Environmental Health and Noncommunicable Diseases in Georgia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  15. Stopping epidemics when and where they occur.Lancet (London, England) · 2023
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  18. Molecular therapies and vaccines face the challenges of emerging infectious diseases.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Piero OlliaroISARIC Global Support Centre, International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, New Richards Building, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7FZ, UK. Electronic address: piero.olliaro@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
Els TorreeleVisiting Fellow, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London, London, UK.
Angkor Hospital for Children · KHUniversity College London · GB

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 214711/Z/18/ZWellcome Trust 215091/Z/18/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lessons drawn from successes and failures with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Ebola virus disease (EVD) should help shaping a robust health innovation system for infectious disease epidemics. Epidemic response research and development (R&D) can be mobilized quickly for public health priorities and yield medicinal products within months. However, to resolve epidemics, technological advances must be equitably accessible and deployed, and these examples expose the limitations of a supply-driven, fragmented R&D ecosystem relying primarily on the private sector to deliver health products. Efficient epidemic response requires a coordinated public health-focused, end-to-end R&D ecosystem for the development, registration, availability, and use of pharmaceutical products. Because pivotal clinical trials can only be conducted during outbreaks, significant preparation must be done beforehand: strengthening clinical research capacity and developing pre-positioned trial protocols and clinical characterization protocols, as well as conducting discovery and pre-clinical research, manufacturing, and early clinical testing of candidate products. This will allow for speedy execution of clinical research early into an outbreak and delivering products within a short time. Effective interventions should be adopted and deployed ensuring equitable access during the ongoing outbreak. Measures to make products available where and when needed must be integrated throughout the R&D value chain.

Indexed as

Communicable DiseasesCOVID-19EpidemicsHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaEcosystemHumansCOVID-19Ebola virus diseasehealth technologyinfectious disease epidemicinnovationmedicinal productspreparednessresponse

Identifiers

PMID35218930
PMCPMC8864962
OpenAlexW4213345592

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Registered trials

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