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- I am so thrilled to be joined today

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by Dr. Seth Berkley, CEO
of the Gavi Alliance.

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- Thank you for having me, Emily.

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I'm delighted to join my friends at BCG.

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- What do you think is
Gavi's secret sauce?

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How do you really drive
to achieve that impact

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that you set out to achieve?

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- Well, there's a few things.

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First of all, we are a
public-private partnership,

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and we acknowledge that we
need all sectors engaging here.

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And that's very important because
the UN has a role to play,

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obviously governments have a role to play,

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civil society does, but so
does the private sector.

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And it's critical to bring
all of those together,

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to use innovation, and
to constantly try to be

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surfing on that edge of innovation

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and bringing those tools to
help us in what we're doing.

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I think the other critical
issue is a fanatic attention

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to measurement and
quantifying what's happening.

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And the reason that's
so important for us is

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we go in, we try new things.

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Sometimes they work, but
sometimes they don't work.

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And without live metrics,

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it's very hard to know when
to pivot to new things.

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And given that we have this mentality

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of being public-private,

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it's allowed us to test, adjust,
test, adjust, test, adjust

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to try to get to a better place.

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- And speaking of trying new things,

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let's pivot to talking about COVAX a bit.

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What do you see as some
of the accomplishments

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you're most proud of,

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as well as some of the lessons learned?

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- We ended up with 193 countries
and economies joining us,

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which is extraordinary.

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It's the largest collection,
gathering of countries

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since the Paris Climate Accords.

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We had hoped that we would be there.

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And you asked me what
were some of the greatest

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or most proud accomplishments.

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To me, the single one
was the fact that 39 days

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after the first vaccine was injected

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in a high-income country,

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we had our first injection
in a developing country,

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and that's never happened before.

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As you know, traditionally,
vaccines take five to ten years

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to trickle down to developing countries.

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So we were off to the races very early.

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We have commitments of now
more than 1.3 billion doses.

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And with that,

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and the advanced purchase
agreements we've done,

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we're now delivering at scale.

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And actually today,

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we crossed the 600 million
doses delivered from COVAX.

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But what's more important
than that number is

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we've allocated 1.4 billion doses.

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And the challenge now is
getting those allocated doses

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into countries, getting absorption
going in those countries

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for what now is the most
complex and fastest rollout

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of vaccines in history.

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- Thank you so, so much.

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- Thank you.