The Theory of Change Pillars
Research, Development and Innovation
Advancing scientific understanding and technological innovation in public health and biomedicine
The challenge
High-burden diseases such as malaria have significant health and social consequences on populations. Advancing innovation in diagnostics and new vaccines is critical to eradicating these diseases
Improving prevention and primary health policies is crucial to reducing the burden of high burden diseases on mothers and children
Access to health products remains a challenge in the Global South, especially in rural areas. New models are needed to bring market solutions that are unattractive to traditional pharma players and provide cost effective, accessible solutions
Role of the Pasteur Network
What?
We will focus on developing and testing innovative solutions for accessible diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics, and opportunities to increase accessibility Network-wide of critical research and development technology
How?
- Mobilizing capital to “de-risk” the most promising diagnostics and vaccines for infectious diseases
- Testing virtual solutions to increase the accessibility technology and improve R&D capacity
- Develop cross-institute innovative solutions to global “grand challenge” issues
Related Work and Areas of Interest
Venture fund for promising therapeutics, diagnostics & vaccines
Develop a fund to enable clinical trials on the most promising highburden diseases diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines
Virtual-Labs / Research tools repository platform
Build a shared infrastructure to increase the accessibility and streamline key research tools and technology platforms across the Network
Network of vaccine producers for the Global South
Develop locally adapted solutions using existing vaccine capabilities of institutes to cover growing needs across emerging markets – Further consultation between current Network manufacturers is needed