Covid-19 pandemic, R&D, vaccines, and the urgent need of UBUNTU practice

• Akira Homma, D.Sc.,
• Antônio Carlos Campos de Carvalho, MD, D.Sc.,
• Beatriz de Castro Fialho, D.Sc.,
• Carlos Augusto Grabois Gadelha, D.Sc.,
• Cristiana Maria Toscano, MD, D.Sc.,
• Marco Aurélio Krieger, D.Sc.,
• Marilda M. Siqueira, D.Sc.,
• Moisés Goldbaum, D.Sc.,
• Nísia Verônica Trindade Lima, D.Sc.,
• Wilson Savino, D.Sc.

Affiliations

Akira Homma, D.Sc.

Senior Scientific Advisor, Immunobiological Technology Institute, Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Antônio Carlos Campos de Carvalho, MD, D.Sc.

Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Beatriz de Castro Fialho, D.Sc.

Senior Scientific Advisor, Immunobiological Technology Institute, Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Board of Director's Executive Advisor, Immunobiological Technology Institute, Bio-Manguinhos, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Carlos Augusto Grabois Gadelha, D.Sc.

Coordinator of the Center for Strategic Studies at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Cristiana Maria Toscano, MD, D.Sc.

Collective Health Department, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil

Marco Aurélio Krieger, D.Sc.

Vice-President of Production and Innovation for Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Marilda M. Siqueira, D.Sc.

Respiratory Viruses Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Moisés Goldbaum, D.Sc.

Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Nísia Verônica Trindade Lima, D.Sc.

President of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Wilson Savino, D.Sc.

Coordination of Strategies for Regional and National Integration, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Corresponding author