The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust announced they would boost investments in the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), which aims to prepare for future pandemics by cutting the time required to develop a new vaccine to just 100 days.
The two global foundations called on governments to contribute billions of dollars to the effort at a fundraising event in London in March, saying the need “to deliver new, lifesaving tools has never been more urgent.”
