A collaborative scientific initiative to discover zoonotic viral threats & stop future pandemics
IMPACT & BENEFITS
BUILD CAPACITY
Develop our global ability to monitor, respond and prevent viral spillover from animals
DISCOVER OVER 500,000 VIRUSES
Estimated number undiscovered animal viruses capable of transmission to people
FOSTER SOLUTIONS
Inform new strategies for prevention and the development of vaccines, pharmaceuticals and countermeasures
LATEST NEWS
What should change after COVID-19
The Devex World 2020 forum bought together world leading actors from governments, business and finance and NGOs, including GVP to discuss global development issues and solutions.
The next pandemiC
The Financial Times meets the ‘virus hunters’, including the Global Virome Project, working at the forefront of finding the cause of next pandemic, and preventing it from coming.
Know your enemies
In an opinion piece, the Financial Times emphasize the importance of ongoing pandemic prevention, highlighting the need for sustained funding and incentives for globally relevant infectious disease research.
We need aN international body to sound the alarm earlier
The Ex-UK Prime Minister David Cameron makes a call for a global virus surveillance organization to scan the world for viruses and share the the information rapidly (via The Times).
Pandemic-proofing the planet
New diseases are inevitable. Ensuing global calamities are not. The Global Virome Project will help us better prepare for and prevent future pandemics (via The Economist).
Initiatives to Intercept Pandemics Through Genomics
Three major initiatives in biodiversity genomics - BIOSCAN, Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), and Global Virome Project (GVP) join forces to deliver a “pandemic interception system” based upon comprehensive knowledge of pathogens and their hosts (via PNAS).
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