The global cooperation that accelerated the COVID-19 vaccines | Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

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🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Biotech entrepreneur Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw shares lessons learned from the global effort to develop COVID-19 vaccines: namely, the power of collaboration and the importance of equitable access to health care. Learn more about the innovative partnerships that helped create the vaccines -- and how India became a crucial player in the supply chain delivering millions of doses to the world. (This virtual conversation, hosted by TED technology curator Simone Ross, was recorded March 2021.)

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh.
0:06.9	On today's show, we're featuring a conversation between biotech entrepreneur, Kieran Mazumdar Shah, and Ted's tech curator, Simone Ross.
0:14.8	The two of them talk equity and health care access, the lessons we learn from COVID-19, and why India is such a crucial global spot when it
0:22.3	comes to vaccines and genetic medicines. Thank you so much for joining us here today. How do you
0:31.2	think that the challenges of the past year will either sort of, do you think they will either
0:35.4	hinder or improve equitable access to healthcare?
0:40.4	Well, you know, Simone, one thing is very clear that COVID-19 actually pointed out to us that we are all in it
0:48.5	together. And I think it also exposed many frailties and fragilities of the healthcare systems around the world.
0:58.0	And if I may say so, the developing world showed that it had better primary care capabilities than the Western Hemisphere.
1:06.0	And this actually has helped them cope with the disease, I think, a little better than what the Western world has struggled with.
1:14.5	And it also pointed out that, you know, you cannot be looking after your own small populations and forget about others who are in the neighborhood because you're not safe.
1:26.6	And I think from that point of view,
1:28.5	this is now becoming a collective global effort when it comes to a post-pandemic world,
1:35.3	a post-COVID world, because we will need to basically cooperate in terms of surveillance,
1:43.5	in terms of prevention, and in terms of surveillance, in terms of prevention, and in terms of preparedness, in terms of
1:48.0	future pandemics. So I think COVID-19 actually has demonstrated the importance of equitable
1:56.3	healthcare for all, because if you don't do that, you're not really protecting
2:02.0	yourselves against it. And the other point is that, of course, we've seen a large number of
2:08.4	initiatives under various umbrellas of WHO, CEPI, Kovacs, the Gates Foundation, etc., etc., which really has focused on stockpiling
2:22.5	vaccines for equitable distribution amongst various countries.
2:29.0	So I think all these efforts show you that there is a collective force for global public good that is gaining a lot
2:37.7	of acceptance. I think nothing to sort of show you how interconnected we truly are than a global
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