GAVI Alliance
GAVI Alliance
"Launched in 2000, the GAVI Alliance is a global health partnership representing stakeholders in immunisation from both private and public sectors: developing world and donor governments, private sector philanthropists such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the financial community, developed and developing country vaccine manufacturers, research and technical institutes, civil society organisations and multilateral organisations like the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank." [1]
They have obtained a commitment from the Gates Foundation for $1.51 billion over 15 years. [2]
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Directors
Accessed June 2009: [3]
Mary Robinson is the Chair of the GAVI Alliance Board; Denis Aitken is Vice-Chair.
- Graça Machel
- George Bickerstaff
- Dwight Bush
- Wayne Berson
- Ashutosh Garg
- Dagfinn Høybråten
- Jean-Louis Sarbib
- George Wellde
