Experts from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are available to discuss the news that federal funding for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance will soon be terminated. Gavi has helped vaccinate more than 1 billion children in lower-income countries since it was founded 25 years ago.
Journalists are also welcome to use this comment from William Moss:
“The withdrawal of U.S. financial support for Gavi would severely threaten the tremendous progress made in reducing deaths due to vaccine-preventable diseases and would increase the risk of outbreaks here in the United States. In addition to the more than 1 billion children vaccinated and nearly 20 million lives saved, Gavi programs would have protected 500 million children and saved 8 million lives between 2026 and 2030. Continuing to support this worthy goal and invest in vaccine programs is both the moral and pragmatic thing to do.”
William Moss, MD, MPH, is a professor in the departments of Epidemiology; International Health; and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and executive director at the Bloomberg School’s International Vaccine Access Center.
Anita Shet, MD, PhD, is a research professor in the Department of International at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of child health at the Bloomberg School’s International Vaccine Access Center.
To set up an interview with one of our experts, contact Kris Henry at [email protected].
