Pandemic PACT is a powerful tool that tracks research funding and clinical evidence data for a wide range of diseases with outbreak potential and broader preparedness activities, in alignment with WHO priority diseases. It informs policy and decision-making by research funders, policy makers, researchers, the WHO and other data aggregators or tools.

This initiative collates and analyses global funding tracking data and evidence across multiple disciplines on an ongoing basis. A funding tracking database and interactive tool tracks research funding against research domains and research agendas and the team analyses this data to provide insights into funding gaps and opportunities for collaboration. Pandemic PACT is developing living Rapid Research Needs Appraisals (RRNAs) platform, which will quickly and rigorously appraise existing clinical evidence to identify key knowledge gaps across pre-defined clinical and public health domains.

In response to new or re-emerging outbreaks that pose significant public health concerns, the Pandemic PACT team pivot to real-time tracking of outbreak research data. They collate existing data in the Pandemic PACT database and intensify their data collection efforts by more frequently scraping funders’ websites and receiving increased direct data submissions from funding organisations.

They create outbreak-specific visualisations mapped to research domains, agendas and outbreak-specific research priorities. They also publish regular updates and analysis reports on current outbreaks, which can be viewed below.