By: Christopher R. Albon
Vaccine diplomacy is the central argument in more than half a dozen articles in well-respected publications, including, including Science and Foreign Policy magazines. However, compared to other forms of diplomacy, there exists few clear examples of vaccine diplomacy. The classic – and well cited – example is the U.S. – U.S.S.R. Cold War cooperation on an oral polio vaccine. While a great success, this type of health cooperation between belligerents might well be better defined as an outlier than a trend. If the United States is going to use vaccine diplomacy as a regular tool of foreign policy as advocated by its most predominant proponent, the Sabin Vaccine Institute’s Dr. Peter J. Hotez, then it must actively explore new forms of it.
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