Innovation in the health sector

By: Leonor HidalgoDirector of Trust Relations and SustainabilityVaxThera October 18, 2022. This October, INNOS—the Institute for Foresight and Innovation in Health, a joint initiative between Afidro (the Association of Research-Based Pharmaceutical Laboratories) and the Universidad del Bosque—published the Panorama of Health Innovation in Colombia (PINNOS). To provide some context, I would like to quote from […]

What’s behind a mosquito bite?

By: Natalia Muñoz DurangoDirector of Regulatory AffairsVaxThera April 27, 2023. A few days ago, we launched the podcast VaxThera: Science of Life (Ciencia de Vida), through which we aim to make science accessible to all of you. I had the honor of being a guest on the first episode to discuss the immune system. In […]

A path to immunization

By: Jorge Emilio OsorioPresidentVaxThera The recent report from UNICEF, “The State of the World’s Children 2023: For Every Child, Vaccination,” highlights the clear challenges that persist in ensuring vaccine access for all populations. The fact that 67 million children missed out on some or all of their routine vaccinations between 2019 and 2021 has—rightfully—sounded an […]

What about we vindicate ourselves with our vaccines?

Perhaps vaccines had not been as important over the past few years as they became after the arrival of COVID-19. The pandemic, which two years after it started just begins to seem mitigated, challenged social, economic, and government dynamics and, therefore, health systems all over the world. In early 2020 countries began to realize, perhaps […]