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Relevant to AI safety discussions around pandemic preparedness, biosecurity governance, and international coordination models; CEPI represents a real-world example of proactive global risk coordination that is sometimes cited in arguments about how to structure AI governance institutions.
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CEPI is an international coalition founded in 2017 to finance and coordinate the development of vaccines against emerging infectious diseases. It operates as a public-private partnership bringing together governments, philanthropies, and the pharmaceutical industry to accelerate vaccine development for epidemic threats. CEPI gained global prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic for funding multiple vaccine candidates at unprecedented speed.
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- •Founded in 2017 at Davos with funding from governments (Norway, India, Germany, Japan, UK) and foundations (Gates, Wellcome Trust) to address vaccine gaps for epidemic threats.
- •Focuses on diseases with epidemic/pandemic potential including Ebola, MERS, Lassa fever, Nipah, and unknown 'Disease X' pathogens.
- •Operates as a public-private partnership coordinating between governments, academia, and pharmaceutical industry to reduce vaccine development timelines.
- •Played a major role in COVID-19 pandemic response, funding development of multiple vaccine candidates including AstraZeneca/Oxford and Moderna vaccines.
- •Represents a model of international coordination for biological risk preparedness, relevant to discussions of global catastrophic risk governance.
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Public-private organization for vaccine development
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations Abbreviation CEPI Formation January 2017 ; 9 years ago  ( 2017-01 ) Founders
Wellcome Trust [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [ 2 ]
Government of India [ 2 ]
Norway [ 2 ]
World Economic Forum [ 2 ]
Founded at Davos , Switzerland [ 1 ] Purpose Fund vaccine development [ 1 ] Headquarters Oslo , Norway Locations London , England
Washington, D.C. , United States
Chief executive Richard J. Hatchett Key people Jane Halton (Chair) Staff 68 [ 4 ] (2020) Website CEPI.net
Launch of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, CEPI in 2017 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations ( CEPI ) is a foundation that takes donations from public, private, philanthropic, and civil society organisations, to finance independent research projects to develop vaccines against emerging infectious diseases (EID). [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
CEPI is focused on the World Health Organization 's (WHO) " blueprint priority diseases ", which include: the Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus ( MERS-CoV ), the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2 ), the Nipah virus , the Lassa fever virus , and the Rift Valley fever virus, as well as the Chikungunya virus and the hypothetical, unknown pathogen " Disease X ". [ 6 ] [ 5 ] CEPI investment also requires "equitable access" to the vaccines during outbreaks , although subsequent CEPI policy changes may have compromised this criterion. [ 7 ] In 2022, CEPI adopted a vision for the world to be able to respond to a pandemic threat with a new vaccine within 100 days. [ 8 ]
CEPI was conceived in 2015 and formally launched in 2017 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos , Switzerland. It was co-founded and co-funded with US$460 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , the Wellcome Trust , [ 1 ] and the governments of India and Norway , and was later joined by the European Union (2019) and the United Kingdom (2020). [ 1 ] [ 5 ] CEPI is headquartered in Oslo , Norway. [ 4 ]
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Founding
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Jeremy Farrar , co-author of the concept of CEPI, and board member
The concept for CEPI was outlined in a July 2015 paper in The New England Journal of Medicine , titled "Establishing a Global Vaccine-Development Fund", co-authored by British medical researcher Jeremy Farrar (a director of Wellcome Trust ), American physician Stanle
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