Tell us about the foundation’s contribution towards covid-19 vaccines? Please give details related to India.The only way that we will consign covid-19 to the history books is with a vaccine.
Our foundation is supporting efforts through the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI. Like our foundation, India is a founding partner of CEPI, which was created in 2017 in response to the ebola crisis to dramatically reduce the time it takes to develop vaccines for emerging epidemics, and ensure they are accessible, available, and affordable.
The speed with which companies have begun working on vaccines for covid-19 is a result, in part, of CEPI, and there are now nine covid-19 vaccine candidates in CEPI’s portfolio.