Covid-19 Vaccine Strategy Taskforce
M inutes – Wednesday 25 November
Mee
ting Details
Members in Attendance
MBIE: Peter Crabtree (chair), Prue
MFAT: Glenys (acting for David
Williams
Taylor)
MOH: Maree Roberts, John Whaanga,
PHARMAC: Lisa Williams
Chris James (Medsafe)
Treasury: Jess Hewat
DPMC: Sasha O’Dea, Philippa Yasbek
STAG: David Murdoch , James Ussher
Additional attendees
MBIE: Simon Rae, Karl Ferguson, Poppy Haynes, Justine Daw, Alastair Mackay,
Stephanie Symynuk, Zachary Clarke,
MFAT: Glenys Karran,
MOH Allison Bennett,
Kelvin Watson ,
PHARMAC: Andrew Oliver
Apologies
STAG Ian Town,
Medsafe Derek Fitzgerald,
MOH Wendy Illingworth,
TSY Hannah
Lobb,
DPMC Nick Brown,
MFAT: David Taylor
Action Points
1 Welcome and review of Actions
CLOSE: The actions on
Sequencing framework and
TPM work-plan scope can be closed
2 Update on Vaccine Candidate Engagement
ACTION: 9(2)(ba)(i) & (ii)
ACTION: Maree to work through the suitable population size for the Pfizer vaccine offline
and circle back for making a decision
3 Overview of the Medsafe process
No Action.
4 Approach to model ing
No Action
5 Programme status update and Risk
No Action
6 Immunisation Strategy and approach update
No Action
7 Communications and stakeholder update
No Action
8 COVAX and International
No Action