Previously, she worked on improving access to vaccines in Africa with the Clinton Health Initiative.
Merck announced in June of 2011 that it would provide the GAVI Alliance, a global organization dedicated to improving access to vaccines, its HPV vaccine at two-thirds its market price of $15.
In poor countries, multilateral organizations, including the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), have taken an active role in improving access to vaccines [ 21].
The GAVI Alliance has immunised 370 million of the world's poorest children since 2000 through its efforts to improve access to vaccines in developing countries.
The medical care intervention improved access to vaccines and morbidity surveillance for acute illness.
It is well established that implementation research can be used to improve access to vaccines, treatments, diagnostics, and interventions.
The GAVI Alliance aims to improve access to vaccines in developing countries and since 2000 has immunized almost 400 million of the world's poorest children.
"This will in turn increase and improve access to vaccines by more vulnerable groups leading to the overall goal of attaining massive reduction in the number of unnecessary deaths from vaccine preventable diseases" he further explained.
It brings together the World Bank, the WHO, wealthy donor countries, poor recipient ones, philanthropic organisations and the drug industry, with the aim of improving access to existing vaccines and developing new ones.According to Geoffrey Lamb, head of "resource mobilisation" at the World Bank, one way to finance such a programme is through a global trust fund for vaccines for needy countries.
These diseases claim over a million lives each year in the developing world and improving access to effective vaccines is a major goal of GAVI.
