Morning Briefing

Reuters profiles GAVI Alliance CEO Seth Berkley, recounting his childhood and early career, providing a brief history of GAVI since its inception in 2000, and discussing Berkley's goals and vision for the alliance. "Berkley's specialism is vaccinology and he is in Africa again, working to introduce routine childhood immunizations which protect most people in the rich world," the news service writes, adding, "His interim goal with GAVI is to save another four million lives by 2015, and his big mission is for the global health community to get vaccines against every preventable disease to every child who needs protecting" (Kelland, 5/2).