In episode 5 of our COVID19 Road to a vaccine series, our host, Associate Professor Nigel Crawford speaks to Professor Terry Nolan. Professor Nolan is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. He heads up VIRGO, the vaccine and immunisation research group, a collaboration between Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the University of Melbourne. VIRGO has the largest and longest standing child and adolescent vaccine population research and clinical trials program in Australia. He previously chaired ATAGI, the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation and was a member of SAGE, the World Health Organisation's main advisory group on vaccines and immunisation. They discuss the COVID-19 candidate vaccines from an Australian perspective and Australia's role in global clinical trials.

Links:

•The Lancet: A real time dashboard of clinical trials for COVID-19:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(20)30086-8/fulltext?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social#relAudio

•ClinicalTrials.Gov:
https://clinicaltrials.gov

•Global Coronavirus COVID-19 Clinical Trial Tracker:
https://www.covid-trials.org/

•WHO Draft landscape of COVID-19 vaccine candidates:
https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/draft-landscape-of-covid-19-candidate-vaccines

•Chief Scientist: The most promising vaccines for COVID-19:
https://www.chiefscientist.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/rrif-covid19-promising-vaccines.pdf

•WHO: SAGE
https://www.who.int/immunization/policy/sage/en/