Seth Franklin Berkley, M.D. (born 1956 in New York City, New York) is an American medical epidemiologist by training. He is the CEO of the GAVI Alliance and a global advocate of the power of vaccines. He is also the founder and former president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI). After graduation from McBurney School, New York, in 1974, he received a Bachelor of Science and medical degrees from Brown University, and trained in internal medicine at Harvard University. Berkley has been featured on the cover of Newsweek and recognized by Wired Magazine as among "The Wired 25" —a salute to dreamers, inventors, mavericks and leaders—as well as by TIME magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" in 2009. In 2010, Fortune magazine named Berkley as one of its "Global Forum Visionaries." Speaking at the TED 2010 conference, Dr. Berkley explains how innovative vaccine design and production technologies are bringing us closer to controlling global health threats like flu and HIV.
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“It is in wealthier countries, where we no longer see the terrible impact these preventable diseases can have, that people are more reticent...This reticence is a luxury we can ill afford.”
