MEDIA ADVISORY: Integrating Research into Outbreaks: How can we prepare for the next Marburg outbreak? - 10 March 2023 - 1400 CET

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No images? Click here Thursday, 9 March 2023 MEDIA ADVISORY Integrating Research into Outbreaks: How can we prepare for the next Marburg outbreak? 10 March 2023 - 1400 CET The WHO R&D Blueprint is organizing a consultation with the MARVAC partners and focal points from at-risk countries to discuss Marburg vaccine and therapeutic candidates and integrating research during an outbreak. Preliminary Agenda 1- Outbreak sit rep including diagnostics and epidemiology 2- Review of core trial protocols for vaccines and therapeutics 3- Panel discussion from at-risk country focal points   The MARVAC includes leaders in the field of vaccine research and development, working together to develop vaccines against this infectious disease threat. This is an open webinar. Registration link for non-MARVAC members: https://who-e.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ETAht7eETMStDmUah5mDaA   Resources Marburg virus disease (who.int) Press release: Equatorial Guinea confirms first-ever Marburg virus disease outbreak https://www.afro.who.int/countries/equatorial-guinea/news/equatorial-guinea-confirms-first-ever-marburg-virus-disease-outbreak Landscape of candidate vaccines for Marburg virus disease https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010805 Current progress, challenges, and future directions for Marburg virus disease vaccines https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9679315/ R&D Blueprint agenda for filovirus research and monitoring https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/a-who-strategic-research-agenda-for-filovirus-research-and-monitoring-----(who-afirm) R&D Blueprint for Ebolavirus and Marburg https://www.who.int/teams/blueprint/ebolavirus Marburg virus disease factsheet https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/marburg-virus-disease   Media contacts: mediainquries@who.int   You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list. If you have been forwarded this update you can click here to subscribe. Journalists may send feedback to WHO Media Team       Share    Tweet    Share    Forward  World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1202 Geneva 27, Switzerland  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe