Covid-19 Vaccine Strategy Taskforce
M inutes – Wednesday 9 December
Mee
ting Details
Members in Attendance
MBIE: Peter Crabtree (chair), Simon Rae,
MFAT: David Taylor
Prue Williams
MOH: Maree Roberts, John Whaanga ,
PHARMAC: Lisa Williams
Chris James (Medsafe)
Treasury: Rachael Wookey
DPMC: Sasha O’Dea, Joey Shannon
STAG: Ian Town, David Murdoch , James Ussher
Additional attendees
MBIE: Karl Ferguson, Poppy Haynes, Alastair Mackay, Stephanie Symynuk,
Zachary Clarke,
MFAT: Glenys Karran,
MOH: Allison Bennett, Kelvin Watson ,
Wendy Illingworth,
PHARMAC: Andrew Oliver
Apologies
Treasury: Jess Hewat, Hannah Lobb,
DPMC: Arati Waldegrave
Action Points
1 Welcome and review of Actions
Combine actions on
Medium term strategy and
1st quarter plan into
“Update Transition
Plan”
AGREED: Next meeting to be early February 2021
ACTION: Peter to arrange a letter to be produced re Sputnik Vaccine.
2 Options for clinical trial / long-term monitoring in NZ
AGREED: The working group further scope the proposed priorities for vaccine monitoring.
3 VAANZ update
No Action.
4 Taskforce Transition Plan
ACTION: Simon to arrange for the creation of a formal Handover Document that clearly
spel s out for each functional area the remaining work, RASCI, Timing, resourcing and so on.
To be signed off by DG Health and Taskforce Lead,
ACTION: Simon to meet Ian, Al ison and Chrisel e to agree plan for Science Advice.
ACTION: Simon to meet Poppy and Kelvin to agree plan for Contract Management.
ACTION: Simon to prepare a budget summary.
5 Programme status update
ACTION: Add a section for the Pacific
ACTION: Al ison to circulate the paper on the number of courses to deliver ful population
coverage for NZ and Polynesia.
NOTED: Al three cabinet papers were agreed on Monday and the
Starburst APA was being
signed by Ministers – great work by the team.
6 Immunisation Strategy and approach update
No Action
7 Communications and stakeholder update
No Action
8 COVAX and International
No Action
9 U
pdate on vaccine candidate engagement
NOTED: Tight timeframes for
Nutel a signoff and the need to get to Ministers Friday
morning.
