Our remit is global and our interests correspondingly wide. The below are indicative rather than fully comprehensive questions of relevance for our work and are arranged into ten overlapping categories.
The dynamic nature of world events and diplomatic work around them mean that we often need research based insights to help anticipate, shape, manage and benefit from unfolding developments and possible futures. The synthesised expertise of researchers can help us make judgements in a policy environment where experimental trials and replicable results are often impossible or inappropriate.
Because time can be of the essence we value emerging results and insights shared via updates, short events, websites and similar, in advance of peer reviewed articles.
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FCO Areas of research interest coronavirus COVID 19 update May 2020 GOVUK
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to take a huge toll - an estimated 6.3m people have died including 178,000 in the UK. Globally 1.6bn students have missed school, 250m people will be pushed into extreme poverty and econom...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University College London
The project focuses on vaccine development and manufacturing, but does not address intellectual property considerations.
Vaccines are the most successful public health initiative of the 20th century. They save millions of lives annually, add billions to the global economy and extended life expectancy by an average of 30 years. Even so, the...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University College London
The project focuses on vaccine manufacturing and development, which is directly related to the question about intellectual property considerations in developing and distributing a coronavirus vaccine.
Vaccine manufacturing systems have undergone evolutionary optimisation over the last 60 years, with occasional disruptions due to new technology (e.g. mammalian cell cultures replacing egg-based systems for seasonal infl...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: Imperial College London
The project addresses the challenges of improving and optimizing vaccine manufacturing processes, which is relevant to the question about intellectual property considerations in developing and distributing a coronavirus vaccine.