CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations)
Vincent Ahonkhai is a Scientific Advisory Committee Member at CEPI, a Principal at Gwynedd Consultancy Group, LLC, an Advisory Board Member at QualityMD, a Member of the Advisory Board at VYZR Technologies, and a Scientific Advisory Group Member at International Vaccine Institute. Prior to their current roles, Vincent worked as a Senior Advisor at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a VP at GSK, an Executive Director at Johnson & Johnson, and a Director at Merck. Vincent holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from the University of Lagos College of Medicine.
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CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations)
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CEPI is an innovative partnership between public, private, philanthropic, and civil organisations, launched at Davos in 2017, to develop vaccines against future epidemics. Prior to COVID-19, CEPI’s work focused on developing vaccines against the Ebola Virus Disease, Lassa virus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, Nipah virus, Rift Valley Fever virus and Chikungunya virus. It has over 20 vaccine candidates against these pathogens in development. CEPI has also invested in new platform technologies for rapid vaccine development against unknown pathogens (Disease X). During the COVID-19 pandemic, CEPI initiated multiple programmes to develop vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants with a focus on speed, scale, and access. These programmes leverage the rapid response platforms developed by CEPI’s partners prior to the emergence of COVID-19, as well as new collaborations. The aim is to advance clinical development of a diverse portfolio of safe and effective COVID-19 candidates and to enable fair allocation of these vaccines worldwide through COVAX. CEPI’s 5-year plan lays out a $3.5 billion roadmap to compress vaccine development timelines to 100 days, develop a broadly protective vaccine against COVID-19 and other Betacoronaviruses, and create a “library” of vaccine candidates for use against known and unknown pathogens. The plan is available at www.endpandemics.cepi.net