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Speaking to The Lancet Infectious Diseases from Geneva, where she is on her first overseas trip since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, virologist Kanta Subbarao reflects that "the world has learnt a lot in the past two years from the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the remarkable advances in vaccine technology and the need to look long and hard at our influenza pandemic preparedness plans. We must also address some uncomfortable truths, such as vaccine access inequity".Today, Subbarao is the director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, based at the Doherty Institute in Melbourne, Australia. There, she oversees global influenza surveillance and helps select the different strains of influenza virus to include in the annual vaccines. This involves synthesis of data on antigenic and genetic characterisation of influenza strains causing serious morbidity around the world and working with computer modellers to determine if this justifies updating the viruses in the next season's vaccine. She is also chairing a new group of 18 global experts to determine when, whether, and how to update COVID-19 vaccines as new variants emerge. "When COVID arrived, with

Who reads Kanta Subbarao—confronting influenza and COVID-19?

Author

Tony Kirby

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)