CEPI launched the “Viral Most Wanted” series in 2025, which highlights the viral families posing the greatest risk to humanity; coronaviruses are one of seven priority viral families in the series.
Milestone
5.1.b
Communication tools
In progress
Develop targeted advocacy strategies and communication tools for governments, multilateral organizations, developers, funders, and the general population to provide information on the health, societal, and economic costs of future coronavirus threats, and potential benefits of vaccines, to foster continued investment in R&D and demand for coronavirus vaccines.
Progress Highlights
Hasso-Agopsowicz 2024 describes the Pathogens prioritization: a scientific framework for epidemic and pandemic research preparedness report, issued by the WHO’s R&D Blueprint for Epidemics in June 2024, which identified Coronaviridae as one of the priority viral families to target for R&D for vaccines and other medical countermeasures for global preparedness and response.
Through global forums and the media, CEPI has advanced its 100 Days Mission as a global goal for pandemic preparedness and response, and secured global political commitments (e.g., at G7 summits) for vaccine development against coronaviruses and other priority pathogens.
The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board in 2023 called for a pandemic preparedness advocacy movement that spans sectors, aligning pandemic prevention with other global priorities. The strategy entails inclusion of civil society, academia, industry, and community voices in a common platform.
The Global Pandemic Preparedness Summit was convened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2024 by CEPI, the Brazil Ministry of Health, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, with WHO, the International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat (IPPS), Unitaid, and other global stakeholders, to strengthen global commitment to accelerate R&D for vaccines and other countermeasures against coronaviruses and other priority pathogens, that would be available for rapid and equitable deployment.
The Pandemic Fund was formed to serve as a multilateral financing mechanism, hosted by the World Bank, dedicated to strengthening pandemic preparedness and response capacity, particularly in LMICs. As of August 2025, the Pandemic Fund had raised nearly $7 billion from governments, intergovernmental agencies, and philanthropic donors.