{"id":991,"date":"2020-07-16T12:13:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T19:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=events&#038;p=991"},"modified":"2023-04-12T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T19:16:07","slug":"how-can-we-ensure-equitable-access-to-the-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/events\/how-can-we-ensure-equitable-access-to-the-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can We Ensure Equitable Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A COVID-19 vaccine promises to tame a pandemic that has sickened more than 10 million people around the world, left millions without work, and cost national economies trillions of dollars. How can we ensure that a new vaccine is not priced so high poor countries and marginalized populations are left behind? <strong>Thursday, July 16 at 11:00am ET<\/strong>, the Aspen Global Innovators Group facilitated a conversation about the urgent need for an accessible, widespread vaccine to effectively combat COVID-19. The conversation featured human rights lawyer and social justice activist Fatima Hassan and public health lawyer, and Priti Krishtel, a veteran of the global access to medicines movement. It was moderated by Dr. Gavin Yamey, the Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/centerforpolicyimpact.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Policy Impact in Global Health<\/a> at the Duke Global Health Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Please sign the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freethevaccine.org\/why-sign-on\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FreeTheVaccine<\/a> pledge to support making the COVID-19 vaccine more accessible for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":992,"template":"","class_list":["post-991","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}