{"id":25127,"date":"2025-10-27T04:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25127"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:01:21","slug":"coalition-of-epidemic-preparedness-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/coalition-of-epidemic-preparedness-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness Innovation:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was <strong>launched in 2017<\/strong> as an innovative partnership between <strong>public, private, philanthropic<\/strong> and <strong>civil organisations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was founded in Davos (Switzerland) by the governments of <strong>Norway<\/strong> and<strong> India<\/strong>, the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the <strong>World Economic Forum<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mission:<\/strong> Its mission is to accelerate the <strong>development of vaccines<\/strong> and other biologic countermeasures against epidemic and pandemic threats so they can be accessible to all people in need.<\/li>\n<li>CEPI has supported the development of more than 50 vaccine candidates or platform technologies against multiple known high-risk pathogens or a future Disease X.<\/li>\n<li>Central to CEPI\u2019s pandemic-beating <strong>five-year plan for 2022-2026<\/strong> is the \u2018<strong>100 Days Mission\u2019<\/strong> to compress the time taken to develop safe, effective, globally accessible vaccines against new threats to just 100 days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0India- CEPI<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India is supporting the implementation of <strong>the Ind-CEPI Mission<\/strong>, \u201cEpidemic preparedness through rapid vaccine development: Support of Indian vaccine development.<\/li>\n<li>It is done through a dedicated Program Management Unit (PMU) at <strong>Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC)?<\/h3>\n<p>It was established by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and is aimed at strengthening and empowering emerging biotechnology enterprises to undertake strategic research and innovation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2033656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurates Asia\u2019s first health research related &#8220;Pre-clinical Network facility&#8221; under Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness Innovation was launched in 2017 as an innovative partnership between public, private, philanthropic and civil organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}