NEWS: HHS will oversee the launch of a new public-private partnership to develop a coordinated, national research response to accelerate treatments & vaccines candidates for the COVID19 response. More from NIH:
The National Institutes of Health and the Foundation for the NIH are bringing together more than a dozen leading biopharmaceutical companies, the Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency to develop an international strategy for a coordinated research response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“COVID-19 is the most significant global health challenge of our lifetime, and it will take all of us working together as a global community to put an end to this pandemic,” said Paul Stoffels, M.D., Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Scientific Officer, Johnson & Johnson. “We will need to harness the best ideas from multiple stakeholders, including governments, regulatory authorities, academia, NGOs and industry to stop COVID-19.
“Using the most advanced clinical trial methods to rapidly test multiple interventions will help get the answers we need as soon as possible to expedite potential prevention and treatment approaches to fight COVID-19,” said FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, M.D. “Collaboration is a critical ingredient for success and the FDA will continue to use every tool possible under ourto speed the development of safe and effective medical countermeasures.
Establishing a centralized process and repository for harmonizing and sharing methods and evaluating models
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