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CEPI - Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations: Why We Exist
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CEPI is a real-world example of international coordination to address global catastrophic biological risks; relevant to AI safety researchers interested in governance models for managing emerging technology threats and lessons from pandemic preparedness.
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CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) is an international organization founded to finance and coordinate the development of vaccines against emerging infectious diseases and epidemics. It exists to address market failures that leave the world unprepared for epidemic threats, accelerating vaccine development before outbreaks become pandemics. CEPI represents a model of public-private-philanthropic coordination for global health security.
Key Points
- •CEPI was founded in response to lessons from the Ebola epidemic, recognizing that market forces alone fail to incentivize vaccine development for emerging threats.
- •The organization coordinates funding and development across governments, industry, and philanthropy to accelerate vaccine readiness for priority pathogens.
- •CEPI's mission addresses the gap between epidemic emergence and vaccine availability, aiming to compress development timelines to 100 days.
- •It serves as a coordination model for global health security, relevant to discussions of international governance and collective action on catastrophic risks.
- •CEPI's work is directly relevant to biosecurity and pandemic preparedness, key concerns in existential and global catastrophic risk reduction.
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## Epidemic and pandemic diseases affect us all. They do not respect borders
As the COVID-19 pandemic showed, in a world characterised by increasing population density, human mobility and ecological change, emerging infectious diseases pose a real and growing threat to global health security.
The costs of emerging infectious diseases are vast, in both human and economic terms. Even small epidemics can cause tremendous economic disruption, while pandemics like COVID-19 can lead to devastating loss of life, overwhelming disruption to societies and economic losses of trillions of dollars.
Vaccines are one of our most powerful tools in the fight to outsmart epidemics. The development of vaccines can help save lives, protect societies and restabilise economies.
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## The creation of CEPI
Historically, vaccine development has been a long, risky and costly endeavour. Planning for emerging infectious diseases is especially challenging: the market potential for vaccines against these diseases is limited and testing such vaccines is difficult.
Events like the devastating 2014-16 outbreak of Ebola in West Africa—which killed more than 11,000 people and had an economic and social burden of over US $53 billion—showed us that very few vaccines are ready to be used against these threats.
The world’s response to this crisis fell tragically short. A vaccine that had been under development for more than a decade was not deployed until over a year into the epidemic. That vaccine was shown to have [100% efficacy](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28017403/), suggesting that much of the epidemic could have been prevented.
CEPI was launched at Davos in 2017 as the result of a consensus that a coordinated, international, and intergovernmental plan was needed to develop and deploy new vaccines to prevent future epidemics.
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