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"Stopping outbreaks when and where they occur"
Pleased to share my new publication in The Lancet, with amazing group of co-authors including Helen Clark, Mariana Mazzucato, Joanne Liu, Michel Kazatchkine and others.
Available free of charge: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00015-6/fulltext
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The LancetStopping epidemics when and where they occurThroughout the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines and other health tools have reached lower-income
countries out-of-step with need and demand.1–3 Yet lessons from this pandemic to address
such inequities are not catalysing the fundamental changes required.4 Similarly, despite
the well known risk of Ebola virus disease outbreaks, it took months before candidate
vaccines were made available for testing during an outbreak in Uganda in late 2022.5
And although there have been cases of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) in Nigeria,
the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Central African Republic for many years,
it was only when the virus spread globally during 2022 that high-income countries
focused on the disease, with people in wealthy countries getting access to mpox vaccines
and therapies.