Mission, Goals & Principles

Abstract

Founded in April 2020, 1Day Sooner was born in the COVID-19 pandemic to represent challenge volunteers who wanted to rapidly accelerate the deployment of the most effective COVID-19 vaccines possible. Nearly 40,000 people signed up with us as potential challenge trial volunteers. In 2020, 1Day Sooner built a robust volunteer community and drew significant global public attention to the potential of human challenge trials, with the altruism of volunteers at the forefront of stories. Now, with COVID-19 challenge studies in progress in the UK, 1Day Sooner is expanding to work in other types of challenge studies and on other projects such as pandemic preparedness and vaccine equity. We are excited to continue building out from our earlier work on COVID-19 challenge trials.