The Great Vaccine Rollout: Covid-19, Cooperation & Global Public Goods

Tue 26 October 2021

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The Covid-19 vaccination effort has become a key focus of government policy, as it is the tool through which we hope to exit regulated social distancing policies and return to normal economic and social life. There is much debate around whether governments should protect their citizens by securing vaccines first or if there are advantages to coordinating and planning the vaccine development process internationally.

Dr Flavio Toxvaerd will talk to Scott Barrett, Professor C. Jessica E. Metcalf, and Ramanan Laxminarayan about the challenges of ‘vaccine nationalism’ – the race among governments to secure Covid-19 vaccines for their own people despite the wider collective benefits of cooperation.

They’ll discuss the conflict between national interests and global outcomes that are both morally desirable and economically beneficial.

Join the debate to find out why some countries cooperate and others go it alone, and where do we go from here?

Book your place: https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/events/great-vaccine-rollout/

Guest speakers

Scott Barrett is the Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University in New York City with appointments in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the Earth Institute. He is also Vice Dean of SIPA.

Ramanan Laxminarayan is founder and director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) in Washington, D.C. and New Delhi, and a senior research scholar at Princeton University. He is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington and a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and at the University of Kwazulu Natal in South Africa.
Twitter @cddep

C. Jessica E. Metcalf is an Associate Professor in Ecology, Evolution & Public Affairs at Princeton University. She is a demographer with broad interests in evolutionary ecology, infectious disease dynamics and public policy.
Twitter @CJEmetcalf

Chair

Dr Flavio Toxvaerd is a University Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge. He does research on the economics and policy of infectious diseases and epidemics. He has advised governments and international bodies regarding Covid-19 policy.
Twitter @toxvaerd1Twitter @toxvaerd1

Cost: Free - booking required