New WHO Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence Research Funding Tracker from Pandemic PACT

Pandemic PACT has just launched the WHO Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence Research Funding Tracker on their website. This is the second research agenda webpage in Pandemic PACT’s series of interactive data dashboards, which allows users to explore funding across priority areas in global health research. 

The new dashboard includes visualisations of research funding award data mapped against key research priorities outlined in the 2024 Technical Brief published by the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. The WHO Hub  coordinated the prioritisation process in collaboration with the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R), Charité University Hospital Berlin and the WHO Science Division and with a financial contribution and observer role of Wellcome Trust. The 23 ranked research priorities named in this brief are categorised under three pillars: Better Data; Better Analytics; and Better Decisions, and align to eight themes for enhancing public health responses: AI and Technological Advances; Data Preparedness; Quality Standards; Analytical Frameworks; Multisectoral Approaches; Community Centres Approaches and Evidence to Policy. 

The Pandemic PACT programme has developed this live Research Funding Tracker dashboard in collaboration with the WHO Hub to monitor investments in research on the priority areas and facilitate the identification of persistent research gaps. This page includes publicly-available, downloadable datasets and interactive visualisations of the award details and can be filtered by theme. 

You can explore the WHO Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence Funding Tracker page and its associated data here.