Week 2: Vaccinating the World: Will Diplomacy, Nationalism or Profit Motive Prevail?
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Live at 6:00 pm.
This event is free and open to the public
How can nations gain influence, strengthen alliances and protect their own populations against a global threat? Here’s one way: provide support in the battle against the common enemy. With less than 10 percent of the globe vaccinated and surges in infections from the COVID-19 Delta variant on the rise, getting shots in arms everywhere should be a public health priority, a national security strategy, and a moral imperative, especially for high-income countries. Yet vaccine nationalism, underfunded international organizations, and arguments over intellectual property rights, rather than vaccine diplomacy and robust international coordination, have slowed progress.
This week Elise Labott, a global correspondent for Foreign Affairs moderates a panel discussion to help us understand the complex issues governing the global response to the pandemic to date, the prospects for getting it right in the future, and how Covid-19 is shaping geopolitics in a changing world.
SPEAKERS:
Tahir Amin, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, I Mak
Abby Maxman, President & CEO, Oxfam America
Elise Labott, Global Affairs Columnist, Foreign Affairs (MODERATOR)
