The Decade of Vaccines (DoV) Collaboration is both a catalyst and a convener – paving the way to extend the full benefits of immunization to all people, regardless of where they live.
As a catalyst, the DoV Collaboration aims to contribute to and enhance coordination across the international vaccine and immunization community, and foster innovation for this priority health intervention.
As a convener, the DoV Collaboration aims to bring together diverse stakeholders to develop a Global Vaccine Action Plan that will stimulate the discovery, development, and delivery of lifesaving vaccines. The plan will build on the success of current work to transform the way vaccines move from formulation, to factory, to families.
Leading health, development, vaccine and immunization experts from around the world are supporting this initiative through participation in the DoV Collaboration Steering Committee, Working Groups and consultation process. They are donating their time and expertise to the DoV Collaboration, serving in an individual, not institutional capacity. Additional institutional, research, and financial support is provided by the founding partners of the initiative: the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has made a specific grant to the organizations hosting the DoV Collaboration Secretariat.
The DoV Collaboration is a time-limited consultation process, the success of which depends on the commitment and active engagement of organizations and individuals around the world. Launched at the Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly, Geneva, May 2011, the DoV Collaboration has been endorsed by 193 Member States.