Better Preparedness for the Next Pandemic: Proceedings from Salzburg

Earlier this year, we partnered with Salzburg Global Seminar to convene Better Preparedness for the Next Pandemic: Developing Vaccine Access Models with Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
 
During the five-day program in Salzburg, participants discussed how to design a new model for multilateral vaccine procurement and the individual actions that could be taken.

This meeting brought together senior representatives of health ministries, heads of procurement, healthcare practitioners, policymakers, and researchers from Africa, alongside modelers, funders, and pharmaceutical company executives. The goal was to gain a deep understanding of needs, constraints, and operational realities from those who will be the end users of any designed multilateral procurement/advanced purchase mechanism.

Today, on the first anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring an end to COVID-19 as a global health emergency, we are pleased to share a summary of this program's proceedings.

This eight-page document introduces Dartmouth's Pandemic Security Project, the circumstances that led to convening at Schloss Leopoldskron, and takeaways from the conversations between participants. 

For more details of the program, see the newsletters published during the the seminar here and here, as well as the photos from the event here. 

Learn more about the Pandemic Security Project here, and the Salzburg Global Seminar here.