While societies across the globe begin to embrace the so-called new normal of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the global health community is still grappling with how to fund future pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response.
The international community is currently facing an estimated $10.5 billion annual gap in global pandemic preparedness and response financing. Our collective challenge is how to raise those funds and ensure equitable global access to vaccines and tests, therapeutics, health system strengthening, and more.
This event, hosted by Devex in partnership with the Open Society Foundations, will dive deep into what it will take to crowd in the necessary funding for pandemic preparedness while ensuring equity and equality are at the heart of the design, planning, and implementation of global efforts moving forward.
Speakers
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Mark Malloch-Brown
Speaker
Until June 2024, Mark Malloch-Brown was president of the Open Society Foundations.
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Precious Matsoso
Speaker
Precious Matsoso is co-chair of the World Health Organization’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Body Bureau.
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