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CEPI - Equitable Access
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Relevant to AI safety discussions around pandemic preparedness governance and equitable deployment of countermeasures; illustrates how international bodies attempt to embed equity into rapid-response frameworks for biological threats.
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Summary
CEPI outlines its commitment to equitable access to epidemic and pandemic vaccines, ensuring products reach at-risk populations—especially in the Global South—regardless of ability to pay. The framework supports the 100 Days Mission goal of delivering effective vaccines within 100 days of a threat emerging anywhere in the world. CEPI pursues equity through direct financial investments, partnerships, and indirect advocacy for systemic reform of global health security infrastructure.
Key Points
- •Equitable access means vaccines are first available to populations where and when needed to end outbreaks, regardless of ability to pay.
- •The 100 Days Mission aims to deliver effective vaccines within 100 days of any threat emerging, prioritizing global equity.
- •CEPI's Equitable Access Framework takes an end-to-end, systems approach involving public and private sector partners globally.
- •Four objectives guide CEPI's equity work: rapid product development, securing rights for Global South access, utility for Global South populations, and a fourth principle (content truncated).
- •COVID-19 pandemic revealed systemic failures in equitable vaccine distribution, motivating CEPI's advocacy for redesigning global health security systems.
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## CEPI’s commitment to equitable access
A commitment to equitable access is inscribed in CEPI’s DNA. It is core to CEPI’s vision of a world in which epidemics and pandemics are no longer a threat to humanity. CEPI’s commitment to equitable access informs every aspect of our work and has done so since our very beginnings.
Equitable access to epidemic or pandemic vaccines in the context of an outbreak means that appropriate vaccines are _first available to populations when and where they are needed to end an outbreak or curtail an epidemic or pandemic, regardless of ability to pay_.
Equity is at the heart of CEPI’s [100 Days Mission](https://cepi.net/cepi-20-and-100-days-mission): its central goal is to enable timely availability of CEPI-supported products to those at risk, starting in just 100 days. That’s because being able to start delivering effective vaccines within 100 days of a threat emerging – wherever it is in the world, to whoever needs it most – will systematically reduce the threat posed by future infectious disease outbreaks for everyone, everywhere.
Of course, for the 100 Days Mission to achieve the greatest possible public health impact the world needs a global health security system that is configured to deliver equitable outcomes. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it painfully clear that is not currently the case.
As we recover from the pandemic and prepare for new threats, it is vital that the system is re-engineered to produce better, more equitable outcomes in the future. CEPI is actively contributing, through its investments and its advocacy and policy engagements, to the urgently needed redesign of the system.
## CEPI’s approach to enabling equitable access
CEPI’s approach to enabling equitable access is guided by its [Equitable Access Policy](https://static.cepi.net/downloads/2023-12/Equitable-Access-Policy_0.pdf), and overseen by the [Equitable Access Committee](https://cepi.net/cepi-board), a sub-committee of the CEPI Board.
CEPI’s [Equitable Access Framework](https://static.cepi.net/downloads/2024-03/CEPI_Equitable%20Access%20Framework_May%202023_0.pdf) describes how CEPI thinks about the ‘end-to-end’ nature of the access challenge and articulates how all of our work contributes to this overall goal.
CEPI cannot achieve equity alone: It takes a systems approach to enable equitable access within a broad ecosystem of national and international public and private sector partner
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