Seth Berkley is CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and a physician and infectious disease epidemiologist. During his tenure, Gavi has increased coverage of routine immunization in lower-income countries. Gavi helps protect nearly half the world’s children, vaccinating more than 1 billion children in just over two decades, reducing vaccine-preventable child deaths by 70 percent, and preventing more than 16.2 million future deaths. In 2020, Berkley co-created COVAX, the only global multilateral solution aimed at ensuring equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for people in all countries. Earlier, he founded and was president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. Berkley also worked for The Rockefeller Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and the Carter Center.
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