Fair Doses (eBook)

An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity

Seth Berkley (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
408 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41317-7 (ISBN)

Infos

An Economist Best Book of 2025"e;Fair Dosesis an unflinching insider account of how science, politics, and human nature collided in the battle to vaccinate the world."e; -Atul Gawande, surgeon and author ofBeing MortalHow vaccines became the world's most powerful and widely distributed health intervention, and the inside story of the challenging race to deliver COVID-19 vaccines globally.Fair Doses is a story of vaccines: how they came about, why they are important, and how they have been made globally available-although our quest for vaccine equity is still ongoing. In this fascinating deep dive into vaccines, Dr. Seth Berkley, an internationally recognized infectious disease epidemiologist and public health leader, offers an inside view of the challenges of developing and disseminating vaccines for a broad swath of illnesses, from Ebola to AIDS to malaria and beyond.COVID-19 was a lesson about the devastation a novel virus can bring on our world. When the first signs of this new infection appeared, Dr. Berkley co-created COVAX, a global initiative aimed at ensuring equitable vaccine distribution. The COVAX team had to navigate vaccine nationalism, vaccine diplomacy, intentional disinformation, political forces, and the conflicting incentives of vaccine companies in its race against the virus. In record time, the group organized 193 countries, raised more than $12 billion, built the world's largest portfolio of COVID-19 vaccines, and delivered two billion doses to 146 countries.Future pandemics are an evolutionary inevitability, and future global response needs to be much faster and more equitable. Drawing from his personal experience, Dr. Berkley lays out a bold vision of preparedness that will help the global community take advantage of rapid advancements in science to make our world safer from infectious diseases.

Inhalt

Contents
 
Preface
Timeline for COVID-19 and COVAX Response
 
Introduction
1. Why Vaccines?
2. The Vaccine Equity Challenge
3. Forging a Career in Vaccines and Global Health
4. Working on the Most Difficult Vaccine
5. Gavi, the Best-Kept Secret in Global Health
6. Launching COVAX
7. Planning for COVAX Global Distribution
8. The Ups and Downs of Vaccine Delivery
9. Financing and Supporting COVAX Delivery
10. Sharing COVID-19 Vaccine Doses
11. Winding Down COVAX While Building Up
12. Lessons Learned for the Inevitable Next Time
Epilogue: Back to Uganda
 
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliographic Overview and Selected Readings
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: AIDS • COVAX • Covid • GAVI • Global Health • Health Care • health policy • HIV • Infectious Diseases • pandemics • Public Health • vaccines
• ISBN-10: 0-520-41317-2 / 0520413172
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-41317-7 / 9780520413177