acmedsci published this video item, entitled “Success from the South: the rotavirus vaccine story and its lessons” – below is their description.
The 2023 The Lancet and the Academy of Medical Sciences International Health Lecture was presented by Professor Gagandeep (Cherry) Kang, Director of Global Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In this lecture, Professor Kang reflected on the successes and lessons learnt from the rotavirus vaccine journey in India, touching on issues such as vaccine inequity and vaccine effectiveness in low and-middle-income countries, manufacturing in the global south, how developing countries can lead in driving forwards the public health agenda, and what we can learn to improve global health in the future.
Professor Kang was joined by a global expert panel who gave short talks:
• Dr Miren Iturriza Gomara, Head of Research, GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health
• Professor Petro Terblanche, Managing Director, Afrigen Biologics
• Professor Suerie Moon, Professor of Practice & Global Health Expert, Geneva Graduate Institute
To read the manuscript published in The Lancet alongside this lecture, visit https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02520-5/fulltext
At this lecture, the welcome and concluding remarks were provided by Professor Tom Solomon, CBE FMedSci, the Academy’s Vice President (International). The introduction and discussion were chaired by Professor Richard Horton FMedSci, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet. To read more about The Lancet, a family of independent, international medical journals address urgent topics in our society through making high-quality science widely available for the past 200 years, visit http://www.thelancet.com/
This talk was filmed as part of the Academy of Medical Sciences & The Lancet International Health Lecture series. The International Health Lecture provides a platform for leaders in global health to discuss topics of international significance, promoting debate, discussion and the exchange of ideas on current research. For more information visit https://acmedsci.ac.uk/policy/international-policy/international-health-lecture
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