Attacks on the US public health & vaccine systems are tragedies of 2025. As we hopefully enter a more positive new year, I have an opinion piece in Science Magazine pushing back on some of the unfortunate thought processes & policies making Americans less safe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Really excited to see Fair Doses listed by The Economist in their best books of 2025!!

@nature.com just published a fabulous review of my new book Fair Doses by William Hausdorff which really explains the book well and the important role that vaccine equity and COVAX played in the pandemic response. It also captured many of the important lessons learned. doi.org/10.1038/d415...

Global health financing is shrinking as pandemic risks are rising. A G20 High Level panel on Pandemic Financing on which I served has called for urgent action from governments to protect against catastrophic losses. bit.ly/pandemicfina... #pandemicpreparedness #globalhealthsecurity

Tragic to have high level policy makers put out disinformation on the safety of drugs. Glad to have scientific studies newly published to set the record straight.

You always need a denominator and a comparison to natural disease. Great that they did this study!

I enjoyed the book launch of Fair Doses at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. For those that missed it, here is the podcast. www.csis.org/podcasts/com...

Really great to do a live Ground Truths Podcast with @erictopol.bsky.social Here is the clip from the segment on why we can’t have global security without global health security.

I really want to thank Global Health Strategies & David Gold, in particular for hosting a pre-launch reception the night before my official publishing date for my book Fair Doses. In attendance were many of the global health glitterati. friends, staff from IAVI, Gavi, GHS & the Gates Foundation.

Really great to do this. A great interview by Brian Lehrer!

In an era of poly-epidemics, increasing military expenditures while cutting support for bio-security makes no sense. More Americans died from Covid-19 than in all the wars after the Civil War until today. We need to be sure we are prepared for the evolutionary certainty of infections Source: STAT

There is a new podcast out w/ my friend Ben Plumley discussing the messages from my book, Fair Doses. We discuss vaccine equity, mis/dis-information & rapid vaccine innovation & challenges in the political landscape. It is an excellent summary of key messages. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Pleased to announce the October 28th launch of my book "Fair Doses: An insider’s story of the pandemic and the global fight for vaccine equity" written in an engaging way for a general audience & available for pre-order on all major bookseller sites Pre-order at Amazon www.amazon.com/Fair-Doses-I...

Delighted to sit down w/ Steven Levitt Freakonomics co-author & discuss vaccines & talk about my upcoming book Fair Doses on his podcast People I (mostly) Admire. He is a super host & was shocked to learn his own very personal vaccine story on the pod. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Pleased to have this piece in Science today on the importance of maintaining vaccine progress and the threat that it is under right now. The actions of the last few days at CDC only re-highlight the threat. This is not what the American population wants or deserves. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Pleased 2B @ the Gavi replenishment & happy that donors stepped up providing >$9 billion with more to come. I was very sorry to hear the outrageous & irresponsible video from U.S. Secretary of Health RFKjr. Here I have an opportunity to explain why this is bad policy. www.klcc.org/npr-politics...

There are no words to describe how stupid this war on Science is- destroying the innovation base. HIV vax research has helped us understand how the immune system works which will be critical to treating many common chronic diseases beyond HIV. Science must continue! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...

Great to be back in Korea to attend my first International Vaccine Institute Board meeting. We met in Seoul & then traveled to Andong Province to visit SK Bioscience & K-Bio. Korea has progressed dramatically in their quest to become a regional biotech & vaccine center!

Great to see my dear friend Pak Budi, Minister of Health of Indonesia spontaneously while we both happened to be in Washington DC. He is doing so much to improve the health of Indonesians. Good to catch up on all of the challenges in Global Health.

Grt 2B at the World Vaccine Congress in Washington DC. Just finished speaking on two Biodefense panels: What are remaining bottlenecks holding us back from achieving the 100 day mission & International Pandemic funding. Good discussions in difficult times for pandemic prevention & health financing.

Excellent piece by my good friend @agawande.bsky.social on the massive costs of the defunding of Harvard for society and personally in @newyorker.com . Well done Atul but tragic that you have to write this! www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Science gave humanity a gift of 10,000 extra days of life; 27 yrs of loving, creating & experiencing we wouldn't have had. Disrupting science funding isn't just bureaucratic reshuffling—it's gambling w/ future miracles. Stable institutions create transformative breakthroughs. shorturl.at/nlXyi

Great that Uganda’s MOH introduced the#MalariaVaccine into its childhood immunization programme! 1M+ children/year will gain access to added protection against this deadly disease. 19 countries are now offering malaria vaccine with more introductions soon #VaccinesWork www.gavi.org/news/media-r...

I caught up with the Times of India on vaccine access, India as a vaccine manufacturer and the funding situation for @Gavi. Vaccine equity continues to be a global need despite the political climate. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-...

Tragic to see another unnecessary measles death in Texas. To prevent measles, the most contagious infectious disease, high levels of vaccination coverage is required. Nothing else works. Tragic to see babies unprotected due to misinformation. #vaccineswork www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/h...

Very pleased to have done an interview on the @JohnsHopkinsSPH podcast @PublicHealthonCall with @stephaniedesmon on vaccines & @Gavi including why support for Gavi is so critical. johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com/877-gavi-the...

We need strong, science-driven policies to #DefeatMeningitis by 2030 especially in Africa. Great to join @SerumInstIndia at #IPNC2025 to spotlight progress on this front w. Drs Prasad Kulkarni (SII), Milagritos Tapia (@UMCVD) , and Abdulrazaq Habib (@WHO SAGE).

Terrible to see another data-driven vaccine scientist have to leave the US Government. Peter, thank you for your service. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/h...

Short sighted & NOT in America’s best interest. The C19 pandemic cost >$12T & killed >20M. The only reason we had COVID vax in 327d was we had already solved how to make them by researching other coronavirus species. New pathogens are a certainty; pandemics are not. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

Cutting support for immunization and Gavi is not in the US best interest and certainly not good for the world My take in @Time time.com/7272078/trum...

Excellent piece by Paul Nuki @The Telegraph on why cutting funding for Global Immunizations is such a bad idea—for those living in developing countries but also for the rest of the world www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

It is said that those that don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it… Are we back to “letting the virus rip” which early in COVID19 led to a large number of unnecessary deaths? Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza remains a risk & we need to treat it as such. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...

I worked for @gavi.org on the global #COVAX vaccine pandemic response: at the time, then-CEO @drsethberkley.bsky.social warned COVID-19 was likely not the big one but rather the dress rehearsal. Now, five years after lockdowns began, we’re defunding global health & deciding to “let viruses rip”

I had a chance to catch up with Devex’s Sara Jerving in Rwanda. I emphasized the need for cooperation for pandemic preparedness & for cost-effective prevention interventions like Vaccines. Seth Berkley warns of an era of ‘polyepidemics’ as cooperation crumbles www.devex.com/news/seth-be...

I was so sorry to hear this news Nita was such a great champion of global health, medical research and women’s issues. I had an opportunity to work closely with her including as chair of the appropriations committee. May she RIP. hudsonvalley.news12.com/nita-lowey-h...

Amazing to see my good friend @JaneRuth_Aceng, the Minister of Health of Uganda launch this program with @gavi help to vaccinate every infant for Malaria; the largest campaign to date. Uganda has the 3rd largest number of deaths from Malaria after Nigeria & DRC observer.ug/news/uganda-...

I participated in a number of excellent panels at the AMREF African Health Agenda International Conference. The mood disappointed but defiant. We discussed vaccine access and manufacturing & the need to change priorities towards prevention & PHC. An excellent conversation at a critical time.

I am pleased to be returning to Rwanda to attend and speak at the AMREF African Health Agenda International Conference #AHAIC2025 It is an important time to discuss the Health Agenda given the dramatic shifts in the global health landscape & the risk to epidemic/pandemic preparedness.

Tragic to see a child die of measles in the United States—an easily preventable disease. This is the first measles death in 10 years. Let’s make it the last… #vaccineswork

Holden: Thank you for your leadership.

Grt to do a futuristic fireside chat at the #WorldGovSummit on Building Resilient Healthcare Systems: Strategies for Effective Investment in Global Healthcare w/ George Haber a robotic surgeon from Dubai Cleveland Clinic & moderator Amandeep Bhangu www.worldgovernmentssummit.org/events/event

Had a good panel at the #WorldGovSummit where we discussed Innovative strategies for universal health coverage & reducing health inequalities. I focused on messages from @TheLancet #Globalhealth2050 as well as the need to focus on prevention, progressive universalism & pandemic preparedness.

Great to be attending the #WorldGovSummit in Dubai. Just spoke at their Ministerial meeting on XDGs for 2045 discussing the need for Prevention in Health Care and for Pandemics as critical pathways for all countries and the need for equitable provision of our preventive tools.

Very happy to see that the IAVI rVSV Ebola Sudan Vaccine Clinical trial has started today in Uganda. 45 contacts have been identified & 6 already have some symptoms so hopefully the vaccine will show efficacy in the @WHO ring vaccine trial & then can be used more widely for outbreak control.

Sad another outbreak of #Ebola Sudan is in Uganda. But good 2160 doses of the IAVI rVSV Sudan Ebola Vax are in country from last outbreak when they arrived too late 2B tested. Hopefully a clinical trial can start soon. Hlth Min Ocero & PS Atwine have experience w/ this disease. We are with you.

Really great to attend the launch of the new EU Pandemic Viral Vector Vaccine Facility at Bilthoven in the Netherlands. A partnership btw HERA, Serum Institute of India & Bilthoven, they will keep warm a facility with a capacity of >80 M doses to assure European Preparedness.