Speakers
Panel Session
This session will provide an overview of the current UK vaccine landscape. We will hear from the UK Government, who will present an overview of the recently published Pandemic Preparedness Strategy. We will also hear from the UK Vaccine Manufacturing Readiness Project, a consortium led by the UCL Policy Team in partnership with the BIA, the University of Oxford, and independent consultants. The project team will share their findings on the current state of vaccine manufacturing capability in the UK and provide an insight into the policy recommendations that will emerge from the project.
Anca is a Senior Policy Manager in the UCL Policy Impact Unit where she leads on policy engagement for a portfolio of projects and activities across healthcare engineering and manufacturing in areas including vaccine manufacturing and AI for healthcare. She is currently co-leading a policy-focussed research project examining how well-positioned the UK is to manufacture and deploy vaccines rapidly and at scale in future health emergencies.
Anca has previously worked closely with researchers in VaxHub Sustainable and VaxHub Global, two vaccine manufacturing research hubs, designing and delivering impact-oriented policy engagement strategies across multiple policy areas such as pandemic preparedness and vaccine equity.
Anca is also a doctoral student at UCL STEaPP. Her research is focusing on exploring how academic-policy engagement can enhance the adoption of long-termism in policymaking.