Responding to health needs in one disease area might rely on being able to draw on research and funding oriented towards other disease areas. However, the tendency of medical research to cross-disease areas has received limited empirical consideration. An outbreak, in a disease area with little prior research or funding, means that any research response will necessarily be rich with cross-disease flows. This affords a setting that allows us to identify and examine the phenomenon over time. We estimate the extent to which the vaccine research community’s response to Zika virus drew on research and funding from other diseases. We find that a persistently low share of funding into Zika vaccine research was Zika-oriented. In contrast, a much higher share of knowledge inputs was oriented to Zika. The exercise serves to illustrate some general themes in priority setting for health research systems alongside some core features of vaccine innovation.

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用其他疾病的资源应对疾病：寨卡疫苗研究动态的证据

响应一个疾病领域的健康需求可能依赖于能够利用面向其他疾病领域的研究和资金。然而，医学研究跨疾病领域的趋势得到了有限的经验考虑。在之前几乎没有研究或资金的疾病领域爆发疫情，意味着任何研究响应都必然会充满跨疾病流动。这提供了一个环境，使我们能够随着时间的推移识别和检查现象。我们估计疫苗研究界对寨卡病毒的反应在多大程度上利用了其他疾病的研究和资金。我们发现，寨卡疫苗研究的资金份额持续偏低是以寨卡为导向的。相比之下，更多的知识输入是针对寨卡的。