Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations

Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations
Abbreviation	CEPI
Formation	January 2017; 8 years ago
Founders	Wellcome Trust; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Government of India; Norway; World Economic Forum;
Founded at	Davos, Switzerland
Purpose	Fund vaccine development
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway
Locations	London, England; Washington, D.C., United States;
Chief executive	Richard J. Hatchett
Key people	Jane Halton (Chair)
Staff (2020)	68
Website	CEPI.net

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is a foundation that mobilizes financial resources from public, private, philanthropic, and civil society organisations to support independent research projects aimed at developing vaccines for emerging infectious diseases (EIDs).

Launch of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, CEPI in 2017 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

CEPI prioritises the World Health Organization's (WHO) "blueprint priority diseases", which include the Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (MERS-CoV), Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), Nipah virus, Lassa fever virus, Rift Valley fever virus, Chikungunya virus, and the hypothetical unknown pathogen referred to as "Disease X". A fundamental requirement of CEPI's investment strategy is ensuring "equitable access" to vaccines during outbreaks, although recent policy changes may have affected this commitment. In 2022, CEPI set an ambitious vision to enable the rapid development of a new vaccine in response to pandemic threats within 100 days.

Conceived in 2015, CEPI was officially launched in 2017 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. It was co-founded and initially funded with 46 crore US$ from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the governments of India and Norway. Since its inception, CEPI has expanded its funding base, welcoming contributions from the European Union in 2019 and the United Kingdom in 2020. The organisation is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 "A global coalition to create new vaccines for emerging infectious diseases". cepi.net. January 18, 2017. Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved March 9, 2021. CEPI is a direct response to calls from four independent expert reports into the Ebola epidemic for a new system for stimulating the development of vaccines against epidemic threats. It was founded by the governments of India and Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome and the World Economic Forum, which has played a key convening role, bringing together stakeholders at the 2016 Davos meeting and other events.
↑ "Who we are". cepi.net. Archived from the original on June 11, 2020.
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[BB-4] Peter Coy (February 13, 2020). "The Road to a Coronavirus Vaccine Runs Through Oslo". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on March 20, 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2020.

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