Senior Program Officer - Global Health R&D @coeff_giving (previously openphil) | views my own. Malaria researcher | vaccine developer | R21 inventor
Katharine Collins
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I'm really excited about the >$140 million Strep A Vaccine Fund we're launching today. I think the basic case here is a great recipe for impact ā
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Guys, how do you invent a vaccine? Or even wilder, how do you invent a vaccine during your PhD?!
In a new episode of Hard Drugs, we talked to someone who did just that: @kat-a-collins.bsky.social!
Plus:
⢠Why did the first malaria vaccine take so long?
⢠Could we make better vaccines today?
Today, Coefficient Giving is launching the Strep A Vaccine Fund, a multi-donor initiative to accelerate vaccine development against one of the world's most neglected infectious diseases relative to its scale.
Strep A kills ~639,000 people a year. There is no vaccine. I think that can change š§µ