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Initiative for Vaccine Research (IVR)

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Vaccine research and development

Mission

The mission of the WHO Initiative for Vaccine Research (IVR) is to guide, provide vision, enable, support, and facilitate the development, clinical evaluation and world-wide access to safe, effective and affordable vaccines against infectious diseases of public health importance, especially in developing countries.

Vision

Being a vaccine research oriented unit of WHO, IVR adopts the long-term vision of the WHO Department of Vaccines and Biologicals: a world in which all people at risk are protected against vaccine-preventable diseases.

In addition, the specific vision of IVR is:

To develop and promote a global and sustainable R&D pipeline delivering the optimal cost-effective vaccines for IVR priority diseases.

IVR will focus on critical steps, leveraging on existing research, developments and management opportunities, proactively identify and promote set of targets for each stage of development to shape the global portfolio at every stage.


!NEW!Tables Malaria updated 29 October 2008
:: Updated tables on clinical and pre-clinical development of malaria vaccines
:: Tables on the Clinical trials of pandemic influenza prototype vaccines
:: NFID -Twelfth Annual Conference on Vaccine Research, Baltimore 27-29 April 2009


Immunization, Vaccines & Biologicals

WHO-UNAIDS HIV Vaccine Initiative

WHO Bulletin - Vaccinating against cervical cancer

IVR Global Vaccine Research Forum

Meetings

Current Status of Vaccines in Development [pdf 85kb]

Global Pandemic Influenza Action Plan to Increase Vaccine Supply [520kb]
Contact us

For information on vaccination requirements for international travellers, please visit the WHO international travelers pages

Initiative for Vaccine Research
Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals
World Health Organization (WHO)
20 Avenue Appia
1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
Tel: +41 (22) 791 43 95
Fax: +41 (22) 791 48 60
Email: VaccineResearch@who.int


Meetings/Workshops/Consultations
11 October 2005