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CEPI @cepi.net · 23h

➡️ More information and how to register: bit.ly/3WvE9TI

If you’re not attending in person, you can watch it live at the link below.

Preparing for Future Pandemics | PD 06

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CEPI @cepi.net · 23h

🔵 Ibrahima Socé Fall, CEO, Institut Pasteur de Dakar
🔵 Naina Subberwal Batra, CEO, Asian Venture Philanthropy Network
🔵 Carlos Penha Gonçalves, Advisor of National Authority of Medicines and Health Products (INFARMED), Portugal

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CEPI @cepi.net · 23h

Moderated by CEPI CEO Richard Hatchett, panel speakers include:

🔵 Precious Matsoso, Co-chair, WHO Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB)
🔵 Florika Fink-Hooijer, Director-General, Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA), European Commission

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CEPI @cepi.net · 23h

With a keynote speech from German State Secretary, Rolf-Dieter Jungk, the session will explore political, financial, and systemic changes needed to enable rapid global action, foster cross-sectoral collaboration, and ensure equitable access to lifesaving solutions.

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CEPI @cepi.net · 23h

Will you be in Berlin for the @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social?

CEPI is organising a thought-provoking panel entitled “Preparing for Future Pandemics – From Fragmentation to Cohesion” on 12 October 2025, 16:00–17:30 CEST ⬇️

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CEPI @cepi.net · 1d

Discover more about the CEPI-supported clinical trial assessing Bavarian Nordic's Mpox vaccine in children aged 2-11 years here: www.bavarian-nordic.com/investor/new...

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CEPI @cepi.net · 1d

New topline data from a clinical trial co-funded by CEPI assessing Bavarian Nordic's Mpox vaccine in children found that the vaccine was safe and generated an immune response not-inferior to when vaccinating adults.

Our new blog looks at the breadth of our work tackling the deadly Mpox virus⤵️

Stronger, faster, fairer: making mpox vaccines accessible | CEPI

Find out more about how CEPI's mpox programme is helping to close evidence gaps for vulnerable groups so that mpox vaccines can swiftly move from the

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CEPI @cepi.net · 2d

New $1 million CEPI funding to AVAREF will invite regulators and ethicists to AVAREF joint review processes and simulation exercises to optimise the speed at which clinical trials of infectious disease vaccines are approved in Africa⤵️

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CEPI partners with AVAREF to boost clinical trial application reviews in Africa | CEPI

Funding will support how African regulatory agencies and ethics committees review and make emergency decisions on vaccine clinical trial applications.

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CEPI @cepi.net · 3d

Could a single vaccine protect people against Zaire ebolavirus, Marburg and Sudan ebolavirus – some of the deadliest viruses known to humankind? A CEPI-funded project is set to find out…

CEPI backs new research into vaccines against multiple deadly filoviruses | CEPI

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CEPI @cepi.net · 3d

The project will make a vital contribution to CEPI’s 100 Days Mission by generating knowledge and data that would enable scientists to respond at pace to a future filovirus ‘Disease X’.

Read more in the press release: bit.ly/4oarvpg.

CEPI @cepi.net · 3d

Backed by up to $18 million in CEPI investment, researchers at @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social will design and test new vaccine constructs that could provide all-in-one protection against multiple filoviruses, including those we don’t yet know about.

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CEPI @cepi.net · 3d

Could a single vaccine protect people against Zaire ebolavirus, Marburg and Sudan ebolavirus – some of the deadliest viruses known to humankind? A CEPI-funded project is set to find out…

CEPI backs new research into vaccines against multiple deadly filoviruses | CEPI

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Pandemic Action Network @panaction.bsky.social · 6d

📅 Don't miss @cepi.net #WHS2025 event, Preparing for Future Pandemics: From Fragmentation to Cohesion on 12 Oct!

Not going in person? Tune into the livestream 📺
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CEPI @cepi.net · 6d

🔵 Collaboration: success will require mobilising expertise across sectors to harness AI responsibly for global health.

As CEPI moves forward, we will continue to embrace use of responsible AI that accelerates science, protects against pandemics, and ensures access and security remain at the core.

Artificial intelligence | CEPI

AI is revolutionising how science can protect the world and its people against the threat of infectious disease outbreaks. Find out how CEPI is

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CEPI @cepi.net · 6d

🔵 Equitable access: ensuring AI-enabled innovations, like vaccine designs, are safeguarded as global public goods for responsible use.

🔵 Biosecurity by design: embedding safeguards into AI tools to prevent misuse while enabling lifesaving advances...

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CEPI @cepi.net · 6d

The roundtable discussed:

🔵 AI as a paradigm shift: AI can help accelerate vaccine development from months to days. CEPI's development of the Pandemic Preparedness Engine, a secure AI assistant to act as a virtual scientific collaborator, can help achieve this...

Building a global AI platform for pandemic preparedness | CEPI

AI is transforming vaccine science. CEPI and its partners are harnessing these new capabilities to create an AI-powered Pandemic Preparedness Engine

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CEPI @cepi.net · 6d

How can #AI accelerate vaccine development and strengthen pandemic preparedness?

This was the question explored last week on the sidelines of #UNGA80 as CEPI and @foreignpolicy.com brought together global health leaders, researchers, policymakers, and technologists.

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CEPI @cepi.net · 7d

CEPI is a world leader in broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccine R&D, committing over $200 million to a diverse portfolio of candidates that aim to boost the world’s defences against coronavirus threats.

Broadly protective coronavirus vaccines | CEPI

CEPI has invested up to US$230 million in a portfolio of broadly protective coronavirus vaccine projects. Through these investments CEPI aims to

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CEPI @cepi.net · 7d

If an all-in-one coronavirus vaccine had been available during the COVID-19 pandemic, it could have averted two-thirds of deaths in the pandemic’s first year.

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CEPI @cepi.net · 7d

It found that a stockpiled vaccine could reduce mortality by more than half during a SARS-X outbreak and cut the need for non-pharmaceutical interventions by more than 60 percent.

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CEPI @cepi.net · 7d

The study led by @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social modelled the potential impact of broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccines — innovative shots that could defend against multiple viruses including a novel sarbecovirus, referred to as SARS-X.

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CEPI @cepi.net · 7d

New research in Nature Communications reveals that all-in-one coronavirus vaccines could save millions of lives, dramatically reduce economic disruption and limit the need for lockdowns in future pandemics ⬇️

New study shows all-in-one coronavirus vaccines could save millions of lives in future pandemics | CEPI

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CEPI @cepi.net · 10d

Future pandemics demand future-ready tools.

That’s why CEPI is planning to develop a revolutionary new artificial intelligence platform called the Pandemic Preparedness Engine – a kind of ChatGPT dedicated to accelerating pandemic vaccine development ➡️ bit.ly/3WfakGS

Building a global AI platform for pandemic preparedness | CEPI

AI is transforming vaccine science. CEPI and its partners are harnessing these new capabilities to create an AI-powered Pandemic Preparedness Engine

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CEPI @cepi.net · 9d

What's been happening in the world of epidemic and pandemic preparedness this month? Find out in CEPI's September newsletter 🗞️

West African leaders chart path forward against Lassa fever

As rain swept through the streets of Abidjan earlier this month, Ministers of Health from across West Africa gathered for high-level talks aimed at combating one of the region’s most pressing health s...

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CEPI @cepi.net · 10d

➡️ Learn more about CEPI’s groundbreaking Pandemic Preparedness Engine: bit.ly/3WfakGS
➡️ Learn how CEPI will ensure it will be used safely and responsibly: bit.ly/4nwUkfu

Securing The Pandemic Preparedness Engine | CEPI

CEPI is creating a pandemic-busting AI assistant for scientists. Ensuring its biosecurity from the outset will be key to ensuring safe and

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