April 14, 2021
Preface
It is in the United States’ strategic interests to ensure that the world mobilizes effectively to end the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. A proactive U.S. role is essential to secure the gains underway in the United States and ensure Americans’ health, safety, and prosperity into the future. Helping to secure the future of lower- and middle-income countries is also simply the right thing to do, on humanitarian, economic, and security grounds.
Today, the United States is quickly approaching a moment of genuine promise, when exceptionally effective vaccines, accelerated distribution at home, and an enlarged American vaccine industrial base open the door for the Biden administration to bring American leadership to urgent global vaccine challenges. The United States’ health, economic, and national security interests argue for seizing this moment, beginning with presidential leadership to explain the stakes to Americans still legitimately worried about the epidemic at
Katherine E. Bliss, Senior Fellow and Project Director for the CSIS-LSHTM High-Level Panel, will provide opening remarks.
J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, will then moderate a panel discussion on the federal reforms needed to strengthen confidence in vaccines, including Covid-19 vaccines, in the United States. This expert panel will feature
Bruce Gellin, President of Global Immunization at the Sabin Vaccine Institute;
Margaret “Peggy” Hamburg, former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Interim Vice President of Global Biological Policy and Programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative;
Juliette Kayyem, Senior Belfer Lecturer in International Security at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government;
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 9:30 am - 10:15 am
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In protracted emergencies, United States sanctions add a level of complexity for humanitarian operations. This challenge is particularly acute in North Korea, where longstanding food insecurity and public health crises have been compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic. Humanitarian organizations have identified intentional and inadvertent roadblocks to essential services as a result of long-standing sanctions on North Korean authorities, creating cumbersome and onerous obstacles to overcome. The repercussions of these sanctions are felt disproportionately by the civilian population and they make humanitarian activities
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