Vaccine Nationalism – Virtual Program

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Effective COVID-19 vaccines are making their way to the public. As the United States and other developed countries use their economic power to ensure huge quantities of the vaccines will be delivered to their domestic populations, the consequences of inequitable vaccine distribution could be profound. Join the World Affairs Council on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, for a panel discussion on vaccine nationalism with Tom Bollyky, Director of the Global Health Program at the Council for Foreign Relations, and Jennifer Bouey, senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation.

About the Speakers
Jennifer Huang Bouey is a senior policy researcher and the Tang Chair for China Policy Studies at the RAND Corporation. In this capacity, she leads wide-ranged collaborative research initiatives on health, education, and global developments. In the last two years, Dr. Bouey has testified multiple times before Congress, briefed U.S. government officials, and was quoted frequently on global health and US-China public health colalborations for the Hill, Washington Post, Financial Times, New York Times, China Daily, and BBC world. Prior to joining RAND, she led an international research workgroup on U.S. and China’s health security interests, including pandemic preparedness and global health governance. Dr. Bouey also serve as a professor of policy analysis at RAND Pardee Graduate School and associate professor of global health at the Georgetown University where she contributes to the education programs and research centered on migrant health and social determinants of health funded by NIH, HRSA/HHS, and foundations. Dr. Bouey routinely provide consultations for the World Bank Group, UNAIDS, USAID, Hong Kong Government AIDS Fund, and international NGOs.

Thomas J. Bollyky is director of the global health program and senior fellow for global health, economics, and development at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University. Bollyky is the author of the book Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways and the founder and managing editor of Think Global Health, an online magazine that examines the ways health shapes economies, societies, and everyday lives around the world.

Bollyky’s work has appeared in general interest publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Atlantic as well as scholarly journals such as Foreign Affairs, Science, the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Bollyky has testified multiple times before the U.S. Senate and served on three expert committees at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and as the co-chair of its workshop on globalization and international regulatory harmonization. He directed the first CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force devoted to global health, entitled The Emerging Global Health Crisis: Noncommunicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Bollyky has been a consultant to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a temporary legal advisor to the World Health Organization. In 2013, the World Economic Forum named Bollyky as one of its global leaders under forty. Library Journal listed his book Plagues and the Paradox of Progress as one of the top ten selling health and medicine books in 2018.

Prior to coming to CFR, Bollyky served in a variety of positions in the U.S. government, most recently at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). He led the negotiations on medical technology regulation in the U.S.-Republic of Korea Free Trade Agreement and represented USTR in the negotiations with China on the safety of food and drug imports. Bollyky was a Fulbright scholar to South Africa, where he worked as a staff attorney at the AIDS Law Project, and an attorney at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where he represented clients before the International Court of Justice and the U.S. Supreme Court. Bollyky is a former law clerk to Chief Judge Edward R. Korman and was a health policy analyst at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Bollyky received his BA in biology and history at Columbia University and his JD at Stanford Law School, where he was the president of the Stanford Law & Policy Review. He is a member of the New York and U.S. Supreme Court bars.

About the Moderator
Jeff Hall is a Deputy Director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he oversees strategy, planning, and operational management for the China Country Office. In this role, he leads a cross-functional team in supporting the development and execution of policy, advocacy, and communications strategies, including operational guidance, internal programmatic and financial alignment, and external investment support. The foundation’s office in Beijing works on a breadth of issues within China, as well as on many programs related to China’s increasing contributions to global health and development. In addition to his current role, Jeff has previously coordinated the initial foundation-wide response to the recent COVID pandemic and spent several years supporting the foundation’s advocacy and communications activities within the United States.

Raised outside of Washington DC, Jeff received his BA in Economics from the University of Virginia and spent nearly 15 years working in public and private sector consulting around the US and across the globe, including the Middle East and South America. His desire to pursue more mission-driven work led him to the Pacific NW, where he now lives in Seattle, WA.

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