Adrian Towse

Adrian Towse is the director emeritus of the U.K. Office of Health Economics, visiting professor at the London School of Economics, and a senior researcher at the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Population Health. For ten years, he served as a non-executive director of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the United Kingdom's largest hospitals. Adrian was president of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) for the 2014–15 term and is a member of its Health Science Policy Council.

A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a "Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken on April 10, 2020, in Bosnia. The photo shows a woman holding a small vial to her face. She is wearing a mask and gloves and the vial reads, COVID-19. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
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A New Way to Drive COVID-19 Vaccine Development

by Adrian Towse, Kalipso Chalkidou, Rachel Silverman

How a "benefit-based advance market commitment" could build on existing Gavi COVAX and EU Joint Procurement initiatives