Gavi and the 'Next' Pandemic

In 2025, CEO Dr. Sania Nishtar and her team consider the lessons the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunizations (GAVI) learned from the pandemic. GAVI successfully brought COVID-19 vaccines to large swaths of the undeveloped and under-developed world by pooling countries’ needs and deploying innovative financing instruments to procure vaccines. Once COVID was identified as a pandemic, in the face of a raft of financial and logistical challenges, Gavi quickly mobilized to add procuring COVID-19 vaccines for low- and middle-income countries to its regular vaccine and immunization efforts. Now in the aftermath of the pandemic, Nishtar is assessing how to best embed into Gavi’s operational DNA the many innovative solutions developed during the pandemic-related chaos of securing and delivering vaccines, while she and her team prepare for what unknowns may come next.