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SUMMARY:Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:\nModerated by Barbara Griffiths. All are welcome.\n\n\nThe top
 ic this month is US participation in global vaccine equity efforts\, with 
 focus on the humanitarian considerations and the economic/political impera
 tives to contain the global COVID-19 pandemic.  The readings are are belo
 w.  If you are short of time\, read the Kaiser Family Foundation article 
 (no. 3).  If you are really pinched for time\, just try the 4-mnute NPR i
 nterview in no.3.  Other than the Foreign Affairs article\, all are avail
 able online.  Just click on the links.\n\n\n\nimage: www.sciencediplomacy
 .org\n\n\n\n\n1.  Acronym Soup:  Global Vaccine Equity has produced some
  of the worst acronyms ever.  To sort them out\, the link below is to a W
 HO (World Health Organization\, a United Nations Agency) press release tha
 t\, after a brief press release entitled COVAX publishes first round of al
 locations\, has a helpful section called Note to Editors.  It describes t
 he leading players including COVAX\, CEPI\, Gavi\, and the ACT-Accelerator
 .\nhttps://www.who.int/news/item/02-03-2021-covax-publishes-first-round-of
 -allocations\n\n\n\n\n2.  Backgrounder to global health policy:  Useful 
 as a recent history of global health policy trends dealing with HIV/AIDS\,
  malaria\, tuberculosis and Ebola\, and now COVID-19.  Importantly\, the 
 article highlights the public/private partnerships that have developed.  
 The title is System Failure: America Needs a Global Health Policy for the
  Pandemic Age by Ashish Jha\, Dean of the Brown University School of Publi
 c Health.  The article appears in Foreign Affairs\, March/April 2021 issu
 e\, pages 103-115.\n\n\nCopies of the article are available at the Witherl
 e Library front desk for overnight lending.\n\n3.  The details and issues
 :  COVAX and the US  is an online article from the Kaiser Family Foundat
 ion.  The last two pages discuss issues for the United States.\nhttps://w
 ww.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/covax-and-the-united-states/\n
 \n\n\n\nIf you are pressed for time\, try this 4-minute NPR interview with
  Tom Bollyky of the Council on Foreign Relations: https://www.npr.org/2021
 /03/21/979683492/the-importance-of-global-vaccine-equity\n\n\n\n4.  Other
  views:  There are many voices\, particularly from health care profession
 als\, supporting a more expansive concept of global vaccine equity.  Spec
 ifically they include The COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project (of the Sabin Va
 ccine Institute\, Dalberg and the GSI Research and Training Institute in c
 ollaboration with the ACT-Accelerator)\, and several online articles from 
 medical journals such as The Lancet and the BMJ (British Medical Journal).
   They seek to address:  the price of vaccines\, vaccine nationalism\, r
 estrictions to vaccine production due to intellectual property protections
 \, and inadequate and unequal investment in public health infrastructure a
 nd distribution.  Here’s a sample from the British Medical Journal blog
 :\nhttps://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/03/17/covid-19-a-call-for-global-vaccine
 -equity/\n\n\n\n5.  Also\, there is research to show the economic costs o
 f a failure to address the global nature of the pandemic.  An example:\nh
 ttps://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/RBA700/RBA769-2/
 RAND_RBA769-2.pdf\n\n\n\n6.  For those of you with time and curiosity\, c
 heck out the list of donors to the ACT-Accelerator.  Madonna!\nhttps://ww
 w.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator/funding-tracker\n\n\n\n
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