Dr. Orin Levine leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s efforts to accelerate the introduction of new vaccines and related technologies and to improve routine immunization systems.
Before joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Development Program in 2012, Dr. Levine was a Professor of International Health, and Executive Director of the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has also served as a Steering Committee Member of the Decade of Vaccines Collaboration and Co-Chair of its Global Access Working Group, as well as President, Committee on Global Health, American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.
Immunization programmes are reaching more kids than ever before. But children in fragile states are being left behind. We could prevent 1.5 million deaths every year by delivering vaccine...
We would see a resurgence of epidemic diseases that can kill or disable people, according to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation vaccines expert Orin Levine.
The availability of immunization and health data will be central to redesigning health policy with a focus on prevention.
