Скачать или смотреть Sustaining the response: Vaccine access, diplomacy and soft power

How is the effort to ensure global access to vaccines, both through the WHO-backed COVAX facility and beyond it, progressing?

Ten rich countries are responsible for 75 per cent of all doses of coronavirus vaccines administered globally while around 130 countries have had no access to vaccines at all.

Having secured the lion’s share of the world’s vaccine, powerful countries including China, the UAE and India are beginning to redistribute vaccines to countries where they seek influence. Meanwhile, the West is broadly accused of hoarding vaccines at the expense of developing countries.

Can timely and affordable globally equitable access be achieved without considering a different approach to intellectual property rights? And have COVID-19 vaccines become the newest diplomatic currency?

To discuss challenges to access and the rise of vaccine diplomacy, Emma Ross and Professor David Heymann are joined by Professor Helen Rees and Professor Ilona Kickbusch.

Professor Kickbusch is one of the world’s leading experts in global health diplomacy and governance. She advises international organizations, national governments and NGOs.

Professor Rees is internationally renowned for her research and policy work in HIV, vaccines, reproductive health and drug regulation. She is the chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI).

Chatham House is consistently ranked as one of the world’s leading policy institutes. Based in London, it provides rigorous and independent analysis on how to build a sustainably secure, prosperous and just world.

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