Compress vaccine development timelines to 100 days
Develop a universal vaccine against coronaviruses
Develop a library of vaccine candidates against other threats
and hope the EA community will be interested in supporting it. CEPI was initially funded by the Wellcome Trust, Gates Foundation, and several national governments (Norway, Japan, Germany, India), and (according to Wikipedia) have since been supported by the EU Horizon 2020 program and the governments of Australia, Belgium, Canada and the UK.
It seems like CEPI has taken pretty good actions (funding RNA vaccine R&D in 2018, funding Moderna in January 2020, leading COVAX). I’m excited about the plan they outline at https://endpandemics.cepi.net/:
Compress vaccine development timelines to 100 days
Develop a universal vaccine against coronaviruses
Develop a library of vaccine candidates against other threats
and hope the EA community will be interested in supporting it. CEPI was initially funded by the Wellcome Trust, Gates Foundation, and several national governments (Norway, Japan, Germany, India), and (according to Wikipedia) have since been supported by the EU Horizon 2020 program and the governments of Australia, Belgium, Canada and the UK.