Muhammad Ali Pate, incoming Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance CEO

Har­vard pro­fes­sor takes on the man­tle of Gavi CEO

Af­ter a year-long search, Gavi, the Vac­cine Al­liance has an­nounced its newest CEO.

Muham­mad Ali Pate will take over on Aug. 3 of this year. He cur­rent­ly works as the Julio Frenk Pro­fes­sor of Pub­lic Health Lead­er­ship at Har­vard Chan School of Pub­lic Health.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment, Pate will “con­tin­ue to sup­port coun­tries to scale up crit­i­cal rou­tine im­mu­niza­tion pro­grams, reach more ze­ro-dose chil­dren, ex­pand ac­cess to new vac­cines, trans­form pri­ma­ry health care sys­tems, and help fight out­breaks and fu­ture pan­demics.”

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