COVID-19:  The Search for a Vaccine

Ep4: Vaccinating the world

<p class="p1">In the race to protect the world against COVID-19, what is being done to ensure that less well-off countries are not left behind if a successful vaccine is developed? What support is being offered in terms of manufacture, supply, storage and distribution?  What are the challenges in insuring that people in remote regions have access to the vaccine? Neil McNeil speaks to Kate Bingham, chair of the UK Vaccine Task Force, Dr. Melanie Saville, Director of Vaccine Research &amp; Development at The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, Jeremy Farrar, Director of Wellcome, and  Saul Walker, Deputy Director - Covid19 Vaccines, Therapeutics and Diagnostics at the Foreign, Commonwealth &amp; Development Office.</p>

“COVID-19:  The Search for a Vaccine” is a series of podcasts which throws light on the work of the UK’s Vaccine Taskforce in co-ordinating and expediting efforts to protect the UK against COVID-19 through vaccination as quickly as possible.  The series looks at the most promising research; the different approaches to producing a vaccine; and how suitable vaccines are identified and acquired.  What are the greatest obstacles?  What steps are being taken to ensure sufficient manufacturing capacity?  Working at speed, how can we be sure that trials – and any vaccine - are safe?  These and other questions will be put to the leading experts in the field, episode by episode, as the international effort to produce a vaccine continues.