Tirer parti de la collaboration entre tous les partenaires pour mieux préparer le Canada aux futures pandémies
Leveraging collaboration between all partners to improve Canada’s pandemic preparedness
It is widely recognized that when the COVID-19 pandemic reached Canada in early 2020, academia, industry, not-for-profits, and governmental agencies alike were not prepared to react in a collaborative and synergistic manner to respond to this emerging health crisis.
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The first stage of the CBRF call, while still under review, will create and fund three to five bio-innovation and bio-manufacturing research hubs across Canada. These hubs will be responsible for adopting and implementing an innovative and agile approach to preparedness. Hubs will encourage actors from academia, industry, not-for-profits, and government to work collaboratively rather than competitively to prepare the ecosystem’s response, develop its capacity, and implement a fully integrated and optimized response chain. This begins by the early detection and sequencing of emerging pathogens and other health threats to quickly provide preventative (e.g., vaccines) or therapeutic (e.g., antivirals) solutions. Through the hub’s coordination, available ecosystem expertise and infrastructure will help propel innovations through all phases of clinical trials. This, in turn, will accelerate the translation of promising research into commercially viable products and processes and support biomanufacturing in Canada. These interactions will allow all Canadians to benefit from and adopt our collective innovations in an informed way.
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This content has been updated on 7 August 2023 at 14 h 11 min.