Big Picture Science - Vaccine Inequity
A radical plan could
solve a historic global health inequity. Countries in the global south who
waited for more than a year for ample supplies of Covid vaccines have
banded together to make mRNA vaccines locally. If successful, they could
end a dangerous dependency on wealthy nations and help stop pandemics
before they start.
In a special episode,
supported by the Pulitzer Center, journalist Amy Maxmen shares her reporting
from southern Africa about the inspiring project led by the WHO that’s made
fast progress. But it could fail, and a global imbalance will remain, if Big
Pharma has its way. Find out what’s at stake.
Guests:
- Amy Maxmen - Award-winning science journalist, Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
- Professor Petro Terblanche - Managing Director, Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines in Cape Town, South Africa
- Dr. Kondwani Charles Jambo - Senior Lecturer and immunologist at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme in Blantyre, Malawi
- Dr. Barney Graham, MD PhD - Former deputy director at the Vaccine Research Center at NIH and professor of medicine and microbiology immunology biochemistry at Morehouse School of Medicine
- Emile Hendricks - Research technologist at Afrigen and Vaccines in Cape Town, South Africa
- Achal Prabhala - Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation, Coordinator at AccessIBSA, a medicines-access initiative in Bengaluru, India
- Patrick Tippoo - Head of Science and Innovation at Biovac in Cape Town, South Africa, founding member of the African Vaccine Manufacturing Initiative (AVMI)
- Harrison Chauluka - chief of the Mkunda village in Malawi
- Agnes Joni - farmer in Chiradzulu, Malawi
- Prophet Dauda - translator and writer in Blantyre, Malawi
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