Vaccine equityThe WTO’s 164 members formally selected Okonjo-Iweala, a former Nigerian finance minister, as leader of the Geneva-based trade body on Monday to serve a four-year term.
Until December she was chair at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.She said her most immediate priority as the WTO’s new leader is to use trade to help combat the pandemic.Last week, she met with the chief executive officers from Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca Plc to discuss prospects for expanding access to vaccines in poorer countries through licensing agreements that help protect the companies’ intellectual property rights.She said AstraZeneca has agreed to certain licensing agreements that would allow nations like India, Mexico and.