European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) COVID-19 Response

To allow for the completion of the remainder of the funded o Key outputs and potential impacts of research projects, EDCTP has approved extensions funded research of the delayed projects, and these are expected to be completed by June 2023. [...] initiatives were developed: • Alignment to global research agendas and Developing the Seven Funder Principles for High locally identified priorities Quality research in Epidemics and Pandemics The GECO call was aligned to the research priorities The Seven Funder Principles were created as part of outlined in the WHO Coordinated Global Research the development of the GECO call and were inspired Roa. [...] The call also linkage to best practice guidance was undertaken aligned to the research priorities of relevance to LMICs by the UK Collaborative on Development Research identified in the collaborative study undertaken by the (UKCDR) and the Global Research Collaboration African Academy of Sciences (AAS), the Global Health for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R) Network (TGHN) and UKCDR (2). [...] In the interim, the GECO funders agreed to incorporate The remaining research priorities which were of the EDCTP call specifications into the GECO call global goods were covered by early investments of requirements with the subsequent linkage made UK funders (including MRC and DHSC) in large clinical to the Seven Funder Principles in the GECO Call trials for vaccines, diagnostics and drug treatmen. [...] In the early stages of the pandemic, grants from the PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE LEGO Foundation, Oak Foundation, and the University of Oxford COVID-19 Research Response Fund, as well Alignment to global research agendas and locally as the UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub supported the initial identified priorities groundwork, by establishing relationships with key partners and developing the evidence-based ch.