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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This is a fabulous editorial from the NY Times Editorial Board about the current state of vaccines in the U.S. & the corrosive effects of Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. on this most important public health intervention. Please read and share. lnkd.in/euAP8jsu www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/o...

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Opinion | Measles Is Back. What Comes Next Will Be Worse.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Grt 2B back in Vancouver at #TED to meet up with old friends & make new ones. Fascinating discussions during breaks in addition to great main stage TED talks. As this is my dear friend Chris Anderson’s last TED as curator after an incredibly successful 25 year run it is particularly bittersweet.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I will be featured on The Life Scientific with Jim Al-Khalil @BBCRadio 4 tomorrow, Apr 14 at 9am GMT, with a repeat on Apr 15 at 9pm GMT. It will also be available from the time of first broadcast via BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... @BBCRadio4, @jimalkhalili #TheLifeScientific

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BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific

Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

For my UK friends, I will be speaking at the Oxford Literary Festival on Saturday 28 March 2026 @ 2:00PM. I will be talking about my book, Fair Doses. Tickets are still available. The event will be followed by a book signing oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

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Fair Doses: An Insider’s Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity | Oxford Literary Festival

Seth Berkley talks to Harriet Wistrich - Fair Doses: An Insider’s Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

For those that missed the October CGD launch of my book, Fair Doses, it is now a podcast. Rachel Glennerster, the CGD President speaks with me about the history of vaccine equity, lessons from COVID & how they should shape future vaccine development & delivery. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Vaccines in a Changing Global Health Landscape with Seth Berkley

Podcast Episode · The CGD Podcast · 01/08/2026 · 55m

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Attacks on the US public health & vaccine systems are tragedies of 2025. As we hopefully enter a more positive new year, I have an opinion piece in Science Magazine pushing back on some of the unfortunate thought processes & policies making Americans less safe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Magical thinking will not prevent future pandemics or improve public health

For much of human history, infectious diseases were the main causes of morbidity and mortality. The sciences of public health, epidemiology, microbiology, and vaccine and drug development have dramati...

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Really excited to see Fair Doses listed by The Economist in their best books of 2025!!

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

@nature.com just published a fabulous review of my new book Fair Doses by William Hausdorff which really explains the book well and the important role that vaccine equity and COVAX played in the pandemic response. It also captured many of the important lessons learned. doi.org/10.1038/d415...

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How COVAX raced to protect the world from COVID-19

A physician–scientist involved in the equitable-access initiative examines its achievements and discusses what can be done better when the world faces the next pandemic.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Global health financing is shrinking as pandemic risks are rising. A G20 High Level panel on Pandemic Financing on which I served has called for urgent action from governments to protect against catastrophic losses. bit.ly/pandemicfina... #pandemicpreparedness #globalhealthsecurity

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Pandemic Financing

The G20 High Level Independent Panel sets minimum annual benchmarks for pandemic financing and urges governments to take action by or before the September

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Tragic to have high level policy makers put out disinformation on the safety of drugs. Glad to have scientific studies newly published to set the record straight.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

You always need a denominator and a comparison to natural disease. Great that they did this study!

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Really great to do a live Ground Truths Podcast with @erictopol.bsky.social Here is the clip from the segment on why we can’t have global security without global health security.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I really want to thank Global Health Strategies & David Gold, in particular for hosting a pre-launch reception the night before my official publishing date for my book Fair Doses. In attendance were many of the global health glitterati. friends, staff from IAVI, Gavi, GHS & the Gates Foundation.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Really great to do this. A great interview by Brian Lehrer!

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

In an era of poly-epidemics, increasing military expenditures while cutting support for bio-security makes no sense. More Americans died from Covid-19 than in all the wars after the Civil War until today. We need to be sure we are prepared for the evolutionary certainty of infections Source: STAT

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

There is a new podcast out w/ my friend Ben Plumley discussing the messages from my book, Fair Doses. We discuss vaccine equity, mis/dis-information & rapid vaccine innovation & challenges in the political landscape. It is an excellent summary of key messages. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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Fair Doses: Towards A Future of Vaccine Equity and Innovation with Dr. Seth Berkley

Podcast Episode · A Shot in the Arm Podcast · 10/13/2025 · 41m

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Pleased to announce the October 28th launch of my book "Fair Doses: An insider’s story of the pandemic and the global fight for vaccine equity" written in an engaging way for a general audience & available for pre-order on all major bookseller sites Pre-order at Amazon www.amazon.com/Fair-Doses-I...

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Delighted to sit down w/ Steven Levitt Freakonomics co-author & discuss vaccines & talk about my upcoming book Fair Doses on his podcast People I (mostly) Admire. He is a super host & was shocked to learn his own very personal vaccine story on the pod. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

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166. The World’s Most Effective Public Health Intervention Is Under Attack

Podcast Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 09/13/2025 · 1h 2m

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Pleased to have this piece in Science today on the importance of maintaining vaccine progress and the threat that it is under right now. The actions of the last few days at CDC only re-highlight the threat. This is not what the American population wants or deserves. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Unraveling the arc of vaccine progress

The philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously described life in 1651 as “nasty, brutish, and short.” He was undeniably correct, with estimates of average life expectancy in the UK at the time ranging from 37...

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Pleased 2B @ the Gavi replenishment & happy that donors stepped up providing >$9 billion with more to come. I was very sorry to hear the outrageous & irresponsible video from U.S. Secretary of Health RFKjr. Here I have an opportunity to explain why this is bad policy. www.klcc.org/npr-politics...

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How children will be impacted by U.S. cuts to global vaccine alliance

Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. says the U.S. will stop funding GAVI due to safety concerns. GAVI is a public-private partnership that vaccinates children in some of the poorest countries.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

There are no words to describe how stupid this war on Science is- destroying the innovation base. HIV vax research has helped us understand how the immune system works which will be critical to treating many common chronic diseases beyond HIV. Science must continue! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...

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Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Great to be back in Korea to attend my first International Vaccine Institute Board meeting. We met in Seoul & then traveled to Andong Province to visit SK Bioscience & K-Bio. Korea has progressed dramatically in their quest to become a regional biotech & vaccine center!

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Great to see my dear friend Pak Budi, Minister of Health of Indonesia spontaneously while we both happened to be in Washington DC. He is doing so much to improve the health of Indonesians. Good to catch up on all of the challenges in Global Health.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Grt 2B at the World Vaccine Congress in Washington DC. Just finished speaking on two Biodefense panels: What are remaining bottlenecks holding us back from achieving the 100 day mission & International Pandemic funding. Good discussions in difficult times for pandemic prevention & health financing.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Science gave humanity a gift of 10,000 extra days of life; 27 yrs of loving, creating & experiencing we wouldn't have had. Disrupting science funding isn't just bureaucratic reshuffling—it's gambling w/ future miracles. Stable institutions create transformative breakthroughs. shorturl.at/nlXyi

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Opinion | What Is Actually the Point of Treating the N.I.H. Like This?

Efficiency is not being enhanced, nor is waste being eliminated at the N.I.H. Scientists are just left to wonder: Why?

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Great that Uganda’s MOH introduced the#MalariaVaccine into its childhood immunization programme! 1M+ children/year will gain access to added protection against this deadly disease. 19 countries are now offering malaria vaccine with more introductions soon #VaccinesWork www.gavi.org/news/media-r...

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Uganda launches largest malaria vaccine introduction to date

Today, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, with support from Gavi and Alliance partners, UNICEF, the WHO, PATH and CHAI rolled out a malaria vaccination campaign in Apac District, northern Uganda.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Tragic to see another unnecessary measles death in Texas. To prevent measles, the most contagious infectious disease, high levels of vaccination coverage is required. Nothing else works. Tragic to see babies unprotected due to misinformation. #vaccineswork www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/h...

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A Second Child Dies of Measles in Texas

It is the second confirmed measles death in the U.S. in a decade. If the outbreak continues at the current pace, the nation may lose its “elimination” status.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We need strong, science-driven policies to #DefeatMeningitis by 2030 especially in Africa. Great to join @SerumInstIndia at #IPNC2025 to spotlight progress on this front w. Drs Prasad Kulkarni (SII), Milagritos Tapia (@UMCVD) , and Abdulrazaq Habib (@WHO SAGE).

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Short sighted & NOT in America’s best interest. The C19 pandemic cost >$12T & killed >20M. The only reason we had COVID vax in 327d was we had already solved how to make them by researching other coronavirus species. New pathogens are a certainty; pandemics are not. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

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H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics

Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Excellent piece by Paul Nuki @The Telegraph on why cutting funding for Global Immunizations is such a bad idea—for those living in developing countries but also for the rest of the world www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Gavi does more than save the lives of children – cutting it will impoverish us all

Trump is poised to stop funding vaccines for developing countries. It’s a huge mistake for MAGA from an economic and security point of view

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

It is said that those that don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it… Are we back to “letting the virus rip” which early in COVID19 led to a large number of unnecessary deaths? Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza remains a risk & we need to treat it as such. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...

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RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread

The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I had a chance to catch up with Devex’s Sara Jerving in Rwanda. I emphasized the need for cooperation for pandemic preparedness & for cost-effective prevention interventions like Vaccines. Seth Berkley warns of an era of ‘polyepidemics’ as cooperation crumbles www.devex.com/news/seth-be...

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Seth Berkley warns of an era of ‘polyepidemics’ as cooperation crumbles

Devex sat down with the former head of Gavi to discuss the difficult times ahead as the foreign aid landscape drastically changes; what this could mean for the health of the world's population, and wh...

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I was so sorry to hear this news Nita was such a great champion of global health, medical research and women’s issues. I had an opportunity to work closely with her including as chair of the appropriations committee. May she RIP. hudsonvalley.news12.com/nita-lowey-h...

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Nita Lowey, Hudson Valley congresswoman for 32 years, has died

Lowey was first elected in 1989 and represented parts of Westchester and Rockland counties.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Amazing to see my good friend @JaneRuth_Aceng, the Minister of Health of Uganda launch this program with @gavi help to vaccinate every infant for Malaria; the largest campaign to date. Uganda has the 3rd largest number of deaths from Malaria after Nigeria & DRC observer.ug/news/uganda-...

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I participated in a number of excellent panels at the AMREF African Health Agenda International Conference. The mood disappointed but defiant. We discussed vaccine access and manufacturing & the need to change priorities towards prevention & PHC. An excellent conversation at a critical time.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I am pleased to be returning to Rwanda to attend and speak at the AMREF African Health Agenda International Conference #AHAIC2025 It is an important time to discuss the Health Agenda given the dramatic shifts in the global health landscape & the risk to epidemic/pandemic preparedness.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Tragic to see a child die of measles in the United States—an easily preventable disease. This is the first measles death in 10 years. Let’s make it the last… #vaccineswork

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Holden: Thank you for your leadership.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Grt to do a futuristic fireside chat at the #WorldGovSummit on Building Resilient Healthcare Systems: Strategies for Effective Investment in Global Healthcare w/ George Haber a robotic surgeon from Dubai Cleveland Clinic & moderator Amandeep Bhangu www.worldgovernmentssummit.org/events/event

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Had a good panel at the #WorldGovSummit where we discussed Innovative strategies for universal health coverage & reducing health inequalities. I focused on messages from @TheLancet #Globalhealth2050 as well as the need to focus on prevention, progressive universalism & pandemic preparedness.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Great to be attending the #WorldGovSummit in Dubai. Just spoke at their Ministerial meeting on XDGs for 2045 discussing the need for Prevention in Health Care and for Pandemics as critical pathways for all countries and the need for equitable provision of our preventive tools.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Very happy to see that the IAVI rVSV Ebola Sudan Vaccine Clinical trial has started today in Uganda. 45 contacts have been identified & 6 already have some symptoms so hopefully the vaccine will show efficacy in the @WHO ring vaccine trial & then can be used more widely for outbreak control.

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Dr. Seth Berkley @drsethberkley.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Sad another outbreak of #Ebola Sudan is in Uganda. But good 2160 doses of the IAVI rVSV Sudan Ebola Vax are in country from last outbreak when they arrived too late 2B tested. Hopefully a clinical trial can start soon. Hlth Min Ocero & PS Atwine have experience w/ this disease. We are with you.

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