Pandemic Flu

Pandemic Flu Research

As part of the ongoing Department of Health (DH) response to H1N1 ‘swine flu' pandemic, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is commissioning research looking into the treatment and management of H1N1 influenza.

NETSCC is commissioning pandemic flu research in two ways:

National Research Priorities

Firstly it is responding to urgent national research priority areas and working closely with relevant research teams to ensure research can be started as soon as possible. This includes a call for research on the co-administration of vaccines for influenza and research into virus shedding and environmental deposition of novel A(H1N1) pandemic influenza. View the NIHR flu research portfolio.

Themed Call

Secondly a call for research proposals that will inform policy and patient care in the current influenza pandemic was issued in late June. The call received a high level of applications. All outstanding research proposals were reviewed by a specially convened NIHR Flu Commissioning Board on 5-6th August. Details of the projects commissioned will be available via the NIHR flu research portfolio.

Professor Dame Sally Davies, Director General of R&D at the Department of Health commented, “I am very pleased with how quickly NETSCC has been able to react to the pandemic and commission research into these areas. It is important that we get the results of this research without delay so we can put measures in place to combat this pandemic.”

View the NIHR flu research portfolio