Ensure equitable access to reliable diagnosis around the world
- Funded by Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)
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Grant number: CH-FDJP-110.162.567-FIND2021
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Key facts
Disease
COVID-19Start & end year
20212021Known Financial Commitments (USD)
$72,491,319.14Funder
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)Principal Investigator
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Research Location
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N/AResearch Priority Alignment
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Research Category
Health Systems Research
Research Subcategory
Health service delivery
Special Interest Tags
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Study Type
Unspecified
Clinical Trial Details
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Broad Policy Alignment
Pending
Age Group
Unspecified
Vulnerable Population
Unspecified
Occupations of Interest
Unspecified
Abstract
Despite the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, FIND capitalized on its recently launched strategy and achieved its 2021 goals, delivering an average of 81% of programmatic performance objectives (versus 80% target). Outside COVID, four products in FIND'Äôs product development portfolio received regulatory clearance; evidence was generated to support six World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations and policy documents; and 36 clinical studies were conducted, 28 of which relied on newly developed approaches to remote work and remote training. Notably, in 2021, FIND was especially focused on its role in supporting global access to COVID-19 tests and genomic sequencing, through its role in the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator Diagnostics Pillar (ACT-A Dx). In part, this meant engaging substantially with multiple global agencies, and absorbing a large injection of COVID-19 work into ongoing work across FIND'Äôs disease portfolio, including in pandemics threats.