In this third episode in an exciting podcast series from the GTEC on pandemic preparedness, Peter Openshaw, Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London (and former President of the British Society for Immunology), and special guest Dr Amesh Adalja, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discuss how we can translate scientific research into pandemic preparedness.  

Our experts discuss their involvement in helping combat the COVID-19 pandemic, and how important it is to incorporate emerging scientific evidence into policy and real-world solutions. They also highlight lessons learned from managing the COVID-19 pandemic and summarise what is needed to prepare for future pandemics.  

This podcast was developed by the Global T cell Expert Consortium (GTEC), an initiative set up to bring together experts in T cells, vaccines, immunology and public health worldwide, with the aim of becoming the leading voice in T cell research during and beyond the current COVID-19 pandemic. The GTEC will educate on T cells and vaccine development through the release of publicly available educational content and will foster collaborative research efforts to address the unmet needs and unanswered questions in T cell research and vaccinology. This initiative is sponsored by Oxford Immunotec.  

Prof. Openshaw of Imperial College London is participating in this podcast independently, via Imperial Consultants.  

The COVID-19 pandemic is a rapidly changing situation: the content of this podcast was correct at time of recording in May 2021.