Opening speech by WHO's Dr.tedros to the COVID-19 Global research & Innovation Forum

The Global Research & Innovation Forum is a virtual event bringing together diverse COVID-19 research scientists, regulatory experts, funders, country level policy makers and other experts.

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The goals of the Forum are:

Goal 1: To continue to accelerate research that can contribute to end the current pandemic and enable access to life saving interventions to those at risk.

Goal 2: To support research priorities in a way that leads to the development of global research platforms and research capabilities to be better prepared for future pandemics.

The forum will include panel sessions and discussions that will focus different areas of research. We will discuss and strategize about the future of COVID-19 research. Moreover, these will be keynote presentations and panel discussions about how research can help to end the pandemic and prepare for future pandemics.

The R&D blueprint webpage (COVID-19) has assembled a variety of resources from our expert consultations as well as other research tools.

The COVID-19 Research and Innovation report provides a summary of global research initiatives and achievements to tackle COVID-19 agreed at the outset of the pandemic ( PUBLICATIONS)

The who website,( Covid-19)continuously update, provides access to COVID-19 resources and tools.

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