Devex
The multiple overlapping discussions underway on medical countermeasures (MCMs) — vaccines, medicines, tests, and other health technologies to prevent, detect, and control disease outbreaks — must do more than tinker in the margins of the status quo. Learning hard lessons from previous experiences that failed to achieve timely and equitable access to such health technologies in large parts of the world, we must raise the ambition and design a truly transformative MCMs platform for research and development, manufacturing, and access centered on equity from start to finish.