100 Days Mission Collaboration For Future Pandemics

A landmark collaboration between governments and the life sciences industry has been announced, stepping up collective efforts to tackle global pandemics in the future and save lives from diseases.

At the G7 Health Ministers’ Meeting, hosted by the UK as part of the G7 Presidency, company representatives and CEOs backed the ambition of the 100 Days Mission, as set out by the pandemic preparedness partnership.

An agreement was made to work towards a plan to develop high-quality diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics in just 100 days after the identification of a new pandemic threat.

All participants at the G7 health event on life sciences, which included representatives from some of the biggest life sciences companies in the world, recognised how important it was to sustain political and industry leadership between outbreaks, as well as how essential it is for public and private sectors to collaborate when dealing with complex global health threats.

The pandemic preparedness partnership intends to make sure the world is better protected against pandemics in the future through the implementation of a comprehensive set of actions required to achieve the ambitious target of 100 days.

To deliver this, new vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics should be part-developed before the next pandemic begins, involving innovation and collaboration between companies, academic and medical researchers, global health organisations and regulators.

The last year and a half have seen collaborative working in this way to deliver a host of safe and effective vaccines for coronavirus, developed in record time. More than two billion vaccines have been rolled out worldwide to tackle the virus, very little of which was known about just over 12 months ago.

Sir Patrick Vallance, government chief scientific adviser, said: “The first 100 days in a pandemic are crucial to changing the course of a disease. In those 3 months, diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines are key weapons.

“Given the extent of the social, economic and health impacts caused by COVID-19, the 100 Days Mission is rightly ambitious and sets a goal for us to which we can all aspire.”

The G7 (Group of 7) forum is the only one of its kind where the most influential and open societies, and advanced economies come together for collaborative discussions. Leaders have been gathering together each year since the 1970s, along with the heads of the EU.

The seven members are the UK, the US, Japan, Canada, France, Germany and Italy, as well as the EU. In previous years, action has been taken to save 27 million lives from AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, to support the education of millions of children in the world’s poorest countries, and to strengthen the global economy and combat tax evasion.

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