Donald Pinkston Francis
Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, USA
Title: Dramatic changes in the development and supply of vaccines for the world
Biography
Biography: Donald Pinkston Francis
Abstract
In recent years, there have been dramatic changes in both the supply of existing vaccines and early stage development of new vaccines. There have been shifts that have seen vaccine companies from Brazil, India and China taking larger and larger roles in both the development and production. From the vaccine production/supply side, companies from emerging markets supplied less than 10% of UNICEF purchased vaccines in 1997. That increased to about 50% by 2012. From the vaccine development side, some of these companies have undertaken major projects for the development of new products for diseases as disperate as malaria, dengue, human papiloma virus, influenza and Japanese encephalitis. The movement of these vaccines from early development, to local licensure and then to UNICEF prequalification, bodes well for the health of the world.