Barriers and Opportunities to Include Underrepresented Population Groups in Vaccine Trials: Cross-Sectional, Observational, Online Survey Study From the VACCELERATE Research Network

Mine Durusu Tanriover   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Dimitrios Poulimeneas   ³ , BSc, MPH, PhD ;   Grammatiki-Christina Tsopela   ³ , MSc, MD ;   Ioannis Kopsidas   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Christos Argyropoulos   ⁴ , MEng, MSc, PhD ;   Romina Di Marzo   ⁵ ;   Olena Valdenmaiier   ⁶ , MSc ;   Stine Finne Jakobsen   ⁶ , MSc, PhD ;   Paula Valle Simon   ^{7, 8} , PhD ;   Antonio Javier Carcas-Sansuan   ^{7, 8} , MD ;   Ole F Olesen   ⁵ , PhD ;   Oliver A Cornely   ^{9, 10, 11, 12} , MD, PhD ;   Zoi Dorothea Pana   ¹³ , MSc, MD, PhD ;   Theoklis Zaoutis   ³ , MSCE, MD, PhD ;   Murat Akova   ^{2, 14} , MD

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

² Vaccine Institute, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

³ Collaborative Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Research (CLEO), Athens, Greece

⁴ Chemical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

⁵ European Vaccine Initiative (EVI), Heidelberg, Germany

⁶ Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

⁷ Hospital La Paz Institute for Health Research (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain

⁸ Servicio Madrileño de Salud, Madrid, Spain

⁹ Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), Institute of Translational Research, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

¹⁰ Department of Internal Medicine, Center for Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Duesseldorf (CIO ABCD) and Excellence Center for Medical Mycology (ECMM), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

¹¹ Clinical Trials Centre Cologne (ZKS Köln), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

¹² Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

¹³ School of Medicine, Department of Basic & Clinical Sciences, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

¹⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey