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Join this year's Visiting Parliamentary Fellows Lord Boateng and Baroness Fall, as they host Dr Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, for a wide ranging discussion on the role of vaccines and the challenges posed by Covid-19 to global public health.

Gavi is a public-private global health partnership, with the goal of increasing access to immunization in the world's poorest countries. In the course of its work, the organisation has helped to vaccinate almost half of the world's children against deadly and debilitating infectious diseases. Its core partners include the World Health Organisation, UNICEF, the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. COVAX, which is working for global equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines, thus providing a way out of the current pandemic, is co-led by Gavi. 

Dr Seth Berkley has been serving as Gavi's CEO since 2011. Trained as a medical epidemiologist, his experience includes working as an epidemiologist for the Ministry of Health of Uganda and as Officer of the Health Sciences Division at The Rockefeller Foundation. Prior to joining Gavi, Dr Berkley was Founder, former President and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. In 2009, he was recognised as one of TIME Magazine's 100 World's Most Influential People. 

Lord Boateng

Lord Boateng is a Labour peer, and currently Chair of the Archbishops’ Racial Justice Commission, Lord Boateng was appointed the UK’s first black government minister after Labour’s 1997 election victory. Subsequently he became the first Minister for Young People in 2000, eventually achieving the position of Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2002. After serving in the House of Commons, he was British High Commissioner to South Africa from 2005 to 2009 before joining the House of Lords in 2010.

Baroness Fall

Baroness Fall is a Conservative peer and served as David Cameron's Deputy Chief of Staff for six years while he was prime minister and for five years when he was leader of the opposition. Nicknamed ‘The Gatekeeper’ by the press, in 2011 she was ranked by the Evening Standard as one of the 100 most influential people in London.