Professor Jane Halton

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Health Report · An Alzheimer's blood test is on the way. What could that mean for you? · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

So that should be soon.

But we want not to have just one candidate that we back.

You have to have several horses in the race.

We've actually done recent work in a couple of outbreaks.

We actually did work with Rwanda on an outbreak of Marburg vaccine.

And that again was, unfortunately, we had a candidate in that particular case, and we were able to work with them to deliver vaccines into arms inside 10 days.

Then we've also worked with Senegal on Rift Valley fever.

And in 2025, there was an outbreak in Senegal, but also Mauritania.

And that's a really tricky disease because it's both animal and human.

And again, working with Serum Institute, we were able to produce 400,000 doses of vaccine and we did that in 16 days.

The molecular clamp technology, which CEPI was one of the very, very early backers of, and you're right,

We had great hopes for it during COVID, but because of the signal that it left, the signature, which was HIV positivity on a test.

And the reason we couldn't use that is in Africa and places like that, you couldn't actually use a vaccine that's going to give you a false positive for HIV.

But that particular technology has now been purchased by Sanofi for a very significant amount of money.

So that's been an investment which is enormously useful in Australia because Australia will get quite a lot of money back from that investment.

The amount of money that's actually come into Australia over the period that we've been in existence is something of the order of $166 million Australian dollars.

Research here is very good.

And again, this is one of the reasons we argue that the Australian government should continue to back the work that CEPI does globally.

It's a pleasure.

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