Gavi at Twenty: A Critical Inflection Point

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Over the past twenty years, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has proven to be a high-impact and resilient global health partnership. Launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2000, Gavi has mobilized its network of government, private sector, and civil society partners to make vaccines affordable and available to millions of children in the world’s lowest-income countries. Yet after years of improvements, immunization coverage has now stagnated in some countries, and the challenges posed by demographic change, urbanization, and conflict all threaten to slow global progress. Gavi’s new strategy for 2021-2025 lays out a plan to confront these challenges and reach the most vulnerable children with vaccines, and the organization will seek funding to help it reach its goals at a pledging conference to be hosted by the United Kingdom in June of 2020. The United States has supported Gavi since 2000, and the Alliance’s contributions to health security and efforts to enable countries to move towards sustainable, self-financed immunization programs resonate with U.S. global health and development goals.
 
On Monday, February 24, from 2:30 to 4:00pm, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center will host a public event focusing on challenges and opportunities for advancing Gavi's work in this new 2021-2025 phase. Following introductory remarks by CSIS Senior Vice President and Global Health Policy Center Director J. Stephen Morrison, Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, will deliver a keynote presentation on Gavi’s plans for replenishment and beyond. He will then be joined by Irene Koek, Acting Assistant Administrator for the Global Health Bureau at USAID; Robin Nandy, Principal Advisor & Chief of Immunizations at UNICEF; and Katherine Bliss, Senior Fellow with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, for a panel discussion examining the role of U.S. support for Gavi as the organization enters its third decade.
 
Keynote Presentation
 
Seth Berkley
Chief Executive Officer
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
 
Introduced by
J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director
CSIS Global Health Policy Center
 
Panel Discussion
 
Seth Berkley
Chief Executive Officer
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
 
Katherine Bliss
Senior Fellow
CSIS Global Health Policy Center
 
Irene Koek
Acting Assistant Administrator
Global Health Bureau
USAID

Robin Nandy
Principal Advisor & Chief of Immunizations
UNICEF
 
Moderated by
J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director
CSIS Global Health Policy Center
 
This event is made possible through the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.