Stakeholder-informed use cases and target product characteristics for vaccines and therapeutics for Nipah virus disease
Nipah virus (NiV) is a deadly zoonotic pathogen with potential for severe outbreaks. We convened a multi-stakeholder expert consultation to define potential implementation strategies and use cases for NiV countermeasures across hypothetical outbreak scenarios and conditions. Participants identified distinct roles for vaccines, monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), and small-molecule therapeutics (SMTs) for prevention, post-exposure protection, and treatment. These stakeholder-informed outputs are intended to inform product development, target product profiles, and equitable access during future outbreaks.
Authors
- Anoop Kumar As
- Robin Levis
- Brian Angus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3598-7784)
- Carolin Vegvari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2018-011X)
- Pragya Dhruv Yadav (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0861-7166)
- Debra Yeskey
- Sourabh Sobti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-9783)
- Rozainanee Mohd Zain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5756-7660)
- Stacey L. Wooden
- Joan Fusco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3716-5688)
- Amanda M Rojek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3948-0756)
- Amol B. Chaudhari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9972-9755)
- Tripti Shrivastava (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6942-1274)
- Shirshendu Mukherjee
- Ankur Mutreja (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-8075)
- Christina F. Spiropoulou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8406-3161)
- Sanket Vasant Kulkarni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2291-7111)
- Manish Kakkar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3254-0496)
- Stefano Malvolti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0146-1127)
- Thekkumkara Surendran Anish (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6957-5895)
- Syed Moinuddin Satter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2959-4522)
- Manickam Ponnaiah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0797-0822)
- Melissa Malhame (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6753-6518)
- Mariann Vaule Bringsværd
- Piero Olliaro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1426-3680)
- Peter Horby (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9822-1586)
- Emily S. Gurley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8648-9403)
- Rima Rakeshkumar Sahay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1492-5568)
- Manoj Vasanth Murhekar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1720-7628)
- Richard G. Jarman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5765-0173)
- Niraj Rathi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5560-5504)
- Sheela Godbole (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6537-9064)
- Pushpa Ranjan Wijesinghe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7875-0165)
- Jane Ennis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5627-6477)
- Brent Yamamoto
- Tondo Opute Emmanuel Njambe
- Ausraful Islam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9608-0823)
- Nivedita Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8573-0189)
- Sharmin Sultana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2687-1280)
- Rubina Bose
- Leyanna Susan George
- Anita M. Shete
- Anitha Puduvail Moorkoth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4816-026X)
- Tarun Bhatnagar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5603-1418)
- Kamakshi Chaithri
- Himanshu Chauhan
- Eric Mungai
- Md Zakiul Hassan
- Mahmudur Rahman
- Tarun Sharma
- Shailja Gupta
- On behalf of the Nipah Countermeasure Use Case Working Group
- Jithesh Veetilakath
- Henrik Saije
- Leyanna George
- Abhijeet Kadam
- Sarabjit Singh
- Poonepalli Anuradha
- Chandni Sajeevan
- Deepak Patil
- Chong Tin Tan
Institutions
- National Center for Disease Control (IN)
- Ministry of Health (MY)
- FIND (CH)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- United States Food and Drug Administration (US)
- Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (BD)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Government Medical College (IN)
- Health Sciences Authority (SG)
- Government of India (IN)
- Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (IN)
- Department of Biotechnology (IN)
- University of Malaya (MY)
- Indian Council of Medical Research (IN)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (JO)
- Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (US)
- Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (IN)
- National Institute of Epidemiology (IN)
- Mapp Biopharmaceutical (United States) (US)
- World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia (IN)
- Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (NO)
- Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (BD)
- Food and Drug Administration (TH)
- Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (IN)
- World Health Organization - India (IN)
- National Institutes of Health (MY)
- MMGH Consulting (Switzerland) (CH)
- ICMR-National Institute of Virology (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- npj Vaccines
- Published
- 2026-11-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41541-026-01608-4
- Primary Topic
- Virology and Viral Diseases
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00