Recommendation 8

We asked the Department how learning would be applied to future emergency response planning. The Taskforce noted that a success factor had been the closer working relationships with vaccine manufacturers, which were critical to the speedy supply and deployment of vaccines. It indicated that this could be important for future ways of working.19 Following a Global Pandemic Preparedness Summit in early March 2022, the government committed along with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and a number of other bodies to the ‘100 Days Mission’, to lay the groundwork for developing novel vaccines against future emerging pathogens within 100 days.20