Before The Next Pandemic: Will We Learn Lessons From The COVID-19 Vaccine Response? Bruce Gellin January 30, 2026

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/before-next-pandemic-we-learn-lessons-covid-19-vaccine-response In the wake of the COVID pandemic, at a time when the US vaccine ecosystem is being systematically dismantled by HHS Secretary RFK, Jr and his acolytes, and when equity has become a four letter word, Seth Berkely’s Fair Doses: An Insider’s Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity makes a plea to play fair the next time a pandemic strikes. His work -- part memoir, part history, part cautionary tale, and, overall, a call to action -- tells the story of COVAX, the largest and most complex emergency response in the history of global health. Beyond his telling of the stories that shaped COVAX, Berkely offers his take on what we need to get right (or at least get better) during the next pandemic. Fair Doses is a story that takes place at the intersection of science, politics, and human behavior.