405 - International Finance for COVID Vaccines
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Prior to COVID-19, the world had the capacity to produce about 5 billion vaccines a year. In the age of COVID, much greater capacity is needed. The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, or DFC, is a little-known federal agency making big investments to build the global vaccine pipeline. DFC's chief operating officer, David Marchick, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about these efforts and their impact.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.4 | Today, I speak with David Marchek, who is the chief operating officer of the U.S. |
| 0:53.2 | government agency that serves as America's |
| 0:55.8 | Development Bank. We talk about some big loans the U.S. government is making to support |
| 1:01.9 | COVID vaccine production in developing countries. Let's listen. David Marcheck, thank you so much |
| 1:09.2 | for joining me on public health on call. You are the chief |
| 1:12.1 | operating officer at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation. I understand that's |
| 1:18.7 | in as the DFC. Correct. Thank you. Thanks for having me. I'm not sure many of our listeners |
| 1:24.2 | know what the DFC does. Could you introduce the agency to us? |
| 1:29.1 | Sure. Well, thank you very much, Josh, for hosting. |
| 1:31.3 | I've been an admirer of your work for many years. |
| 1:33.9 | And you've done a great service to our country |
| 1:37.4 | on a range of public health issues. |
| 1:39.3 | And I'm just delighted to be with you. |
| 1:41.6 | So the International Development Finance Corporation is America's Development Bank. |
| 1:46.6 | And we were created by Congress in 2019. The first year was 2020. To advance American interests |
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