Gavi ensuring delivery of vaccines to the world's poorest countries: a former UQ Filipino student shares

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, brings together public and private sectors with the shared goal of creating equal access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world's poorest countries.

Erlyn Macarayan at the Gro Brundtland Award ceremony in Taiwan. Source: Tang Prize Foundation as supplied by Erlyn Macarayan

Key Points

• Global health experts continue to find ways to learn more and fight different infectious diseases across the world.
• Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance brings together public and private sectors to achieve the goal of providing equal access to new and underused vaccines for the world’s children living in the poorest countries.
• Former Queensland student Erlyn Macarayan shares her experience with Gavi and learn about their vital work in global health.

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Gavi Ensuring Delivery of Vaccines to the World's Poorest Countries

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The former University of Queensland post-graduate student Erlyn Macarayan shares the important work of Gavi in delivering vaccines in low and middle-income countries more effectively and efficiently.

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is an international organisation created in 2000 that aims to improve access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world's poorest countries.

Ms Macarayan also shares details of the award she received from the Gro Brundtland Award in Taiwan in 2016 and her other upcoming research studies in health.

Erlyn Macarayan (2nd from right) together with the other recipients of the Gro Brundtland Award in Taipei City, Taiwan Source: Tang Prize Foundation