Equity and Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Response: The PIP Framework as a Model for an Efficient Pandemic Influenza Response Through Equitable Vaccine Access
Kate S. Rawlings, Olga Kim, Anne Huvos · 2026
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Kate S Rawlings, Olga Kim, and Anne Huvos argue in a 2026 article that one flu treaty already solves the vaccine-equity problem COVID-19 exposed. Rich countries bought early and deep while poorer nations waited months, and the delay prolonged spread and bred variants. The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework works differently: binding advance deals hand the World Health Organization a real-time slice of world flu vaccine output.
Allocation then follows public-health risk and need, not wealth. The authors say this design attacks both axes of unfairness at once, who gets doses and when. No country queues behind richer buyers, so vaccine reaches the hotspots where it cuts transmission fastest. Equity and efficiency, usually traded off, here point the same way. Rawlings and colleagues offer the framework as a working model for future pandemic deals beyond influenza, having operated quietly since long before COVID-19.
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| CREATOR | Kate S. Rawlings, Olga Kim, Anne Huvos |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 13937 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |