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Nina Gobat
Nina Gobat is a British researcher based in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford.1)
History
Gobat has worked with the Platform for European Preparedness Against (Re-)emerging Epidemics (PREPARE) where she “led research and operational readiness initiatives aimed at identifying solutions to ethical, administrative, regulatory and logistical barriers that stand in the way of clinical research being delivered during high impact infectious disease outbreaks.”2)
Gobat co-authored a study titled Advancing preparedness for clinical research during infectious disease epidemics, submitted for publication by the journal of the European Respiratory Society in November 2018. It was published online May 2019.3) Her co-authors were John Amuasi, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Louise Sigfid, Hugh Davies, John-Paul Byrne, Gail Carson, Christopher Butler, Alistair Nichol, and Herman Goossens.
COVID-19
Gobat participated in a February 11-12, 2020 event titled “2019 novel Coronavirus Global research and innovation forum: towards a research roadmap” co-hosted by the World Health Organization R&D Blueprint and Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GLOPID-R). She and Emily Chan presented on the topic of “Integrating social sciences in the outbreak response”.4) Gobat and Chan chair the R&D Blueprint's COVID-19 Social Science Working Group.5)