Davos 2023
The world needs a COP-like process for pandemic preparedness
Climate change is making another pandemic likely — the question is not "if," but "when?" To prepare, the world needs a COP-level process for pandemic preparedness.
Seth Berkley
Seth Berkley is CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and was formerly with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Rockefeller Foundation before going on to become founder, president, and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. In 2009 he was nominated by Sergey Brin as one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.”
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COVID-19
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Davos 2020
Nous sommes tous touchés par la sécurité sanitaire mondiale
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