Centers & Programs

The Foundation operates through a portfolio of Centers AND PROGRAMS described below. we invite you To support our work,

03: GE2P2

CENTER FOR VACCINE ETHICS AND POLICY (CVEP)

Founded as the Ethics of Vaccine Project in 2006, CVEP engages the full life-cycle of issues around global immunization and vaccines:

1.  building and refining the ethical frameworks that help assure that policy proceeds from values and aligns with their implications,

2.  analyzing and communicating about vaccine evidence, ethics and policy in scholarly journals, the media and in other fora,

3.  innovating new analytical, visualization and decision approaches to address these issues, and

4. convening the full vaccine community to consider evidence, ethics and practical solutions, addressing opportunity and performance.

5. CVEP also offers a knowledge-sharing service through publication of Vaccines and Global Health: The Week in Review. 

This comprehensive weekly digest aggregates news, events, announcements, peer-reviewed articles and research in the global vaccine ethics and policy space. Content is selected from key governmental, NGO, international organization and industry sources, key peer-reviewed journals, and other media channels.

This Week in Review now reaches over 2,500 leaders in the vaccine space globally each week through direct email distribution. These leaders operate in diverse spheres including government, the NGO/ONG community, UN agencies and other intergovernmental bodies, think tanks and policy organisations, academia, philanthropy, and industry. 

Our continuing intent is to support broad literacy and current awareness at the leadership level across the global vaccine community. Specifically, we believe that this digest – delivered each weekend – supports stronger, evidence-based policy analysis and decision-making, enhances research strategy, and functions as a productivity tool for leaders whose time to devote to reading broadly is limited. 

If you would like to learn more about the work of CVEP,  please click here. If you would like to support the work of the Center for Vaccine Ethics and Policy, click here. If you like to support for our weekly digest -- Vaccines and Global Health: The Week in Review -- click here.

Center for Informed Consent Integrity

 The Center for Informed Consent Integrity will address informed consent broadly and holds that “consent” – grounded in open, evidence-based, accessible, understandable and materially-complete information – is the bulwark of human rights, fundamental freedoms, and responsible governance.

 The Center will focus on consent in research contexts across all the Foundation’s action sectors including health, human rights, humanitarian response, education and literacy, sustainable development, and heritage stewardship.

 This work includes producing knowledge sharing services Informed Consent :: A Monthly Review which  aggregates and distills key literature and analysis around IC including governance, ethics review and oversight, content approaches, technology and assessment strategies/performance metrics.

More information here: https://ge2p2global-centerforinformedconsentintegrity.org/

Center for Genomic Medicine Ethics and Policy (CGMEP)

Genomics – spanning discovery, preclinical, clinical and translation to daily patient interventions – continues to evolve at an extraordinary pace. Advances in the scientific and technical dimensions of genomics overall are extensively communicated through the peer-reviewed journal literature and supporting grey literature.

The GE2P2 Global Foundation’s Center for Genomic Medicine Governance, Ethics & Policy will focus on this rapidly evolving field primarily on the important ecology comprising governance, ethics and policy, and less.about tools and techniques [CRISPR advances, for example].

One key departure point for our work is the important set of reports issues in July 2021 by the WHO Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing, in particular Human genome editing: a framework for governance [12 July 2021].

We have launched a literature digest to support our work ahead which is available on this site and by direct subscription. We will proceed with joint projects involving our Center for Informed Consent Integrity such as our IC for Genomic Medicine initiative, and actively explore collaborations with other organizations and initiatives.

More information here: https://ge2p2global-centergenomicmedicinegovernance.org/about/

GE2P2 Global – Independent Bioethics Advisory Committee [IBAC]

 IBAC is a capability hosted by the GE2P2 Global Foundation which provides research, analysis and advisory recommendations on issues which may arise across the life cycle of research and evidence generation, including how it informs operational integrity in governance, policy and program activity.

 Specifically, IBAC is evolving to engage such issues across our stated areas of focus – health, humanitarian response, human rights, sustainable development, education, and heritage stewardship.

 IBAC’s work is most mature in the health sphere, engaging issues across the full clinical development life cycle for medicines, vaccines, gene therapies and other health interventions. This life cycle approach includes clinical trial protocol development and implementation, compassionate use/expanded access, market introduction and licensing, deployment and access in humanitarian and low-resource contexts, and more.

 IBAC conducts its work by convening teams from the Foundation’s community of practice that are well-aligned to the issue/case/challenge engaged. For example, an IBAC team for an issue in the health sphere will typically include bioethicists, clinicians, HCPs, patient advocates and other domain knowledge experts appropriate to the problem at hand.

 IBAC’s analyses and recommendations are developed as independent work products, which, in turn, provide the basis for papers, presentations and other ways of generalizing the learnings from this advisory work.

 NEW AT OCTOBER 2021: IBAC will consider requests from non-commercial organizations and projects globally under which it will provide its bioethics advisory capability to respond to specific challenges where we can make a material contribution. Such engagements are limited by IBAC capacity at any given time, and will be provided without fee/pro bono. To explore whether this capability might align with your challenge, or for more information about IBAC overall, please contact David Curry, Foundation President, at david.r.curry@ge2p2global.org