This Vaccine Equity webinar was hosted in response to WHO’s Call to Action: Vaccine Equity Declaration. 

As we all know, COVID-19 has disrupted many aspects of our lives, but it has also shed light on the unequitable access to health care, treatments, and diagnostic testing. The limited access, or lack of thereof, will similarly impact vaccine distribution and administration particularly among LMICs.  As Dr. Tedros (WHO Director) said, “the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure-and the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods on the world’s poorest countries”.  We hope that through this event, we can raise awareness to the barriers to vaccination, and inspire dialogue to action so we can protect our most vulnerable populations and emerge from this global pandemic stronger together.