2022

Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance

Accepted by Paolo Sison, Director, Innovative Finance

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is a public-private partnership that helps vaccinate half the world's children against some of the world's deadliest diseases.

The presentation ceremony for the Joseph Prize will take place during the Ordination ceremony for Hebrew Union College on Sunday, May 8. Those interested in watching a live-stream of the presentation can register on the HUC website.

HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION HEREBY CONFERS
THE 2021 ROGER E. JOSEPH PRIZE
UPON

Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance

Whose global mission, defined at its inception in 2000 as inspired by the conviction that all lives have equal value, has saved lives and protected people’s health by greatly increasing the equitable and sustainable use of vaccines,

Whose partnership with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is strengthening primary health care and bringing us closer to the sustainable development goal of universal health coverage,

Whose humanitarian initiative has helped vaccinate almost half of the world’s children against deadly and debilitating infectious diseases by providing affordable vaccines for the poorest of countries,

Who, by improving access to new and under-used vaccines for millions of the most vulnerable children, is boosting the economies of lower-income countries and making the world safer for everyone,

Who, in co-leading COVAX, the vaccine pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, has so far shipped nearly 1.2 billion doses of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines globally, with the majority distributed to lower-income economies supported through the Gavi Advance Market Commitment,

Who, since 2000, in vaccinating 900 million children around the world and thereby preventing 15 million future deaths, has ensured that no one is left behind,

And whose impact on the generations of today and tomorrow exemplifies the Talmudic teaching that “to save one life is to save an entire world.”

May 8, 2022    7 Iyar 5782
City of New York


The Joseph Prize will be accepted on behalf of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance by Paolo Sison, Director, Innovative Finance.

Film:
Roger E. Joseph z”'l: A Tribute by Linda Karshan

This short film was included in the 2022 Joseph Prize online presentation. In this moving footage Roger E. Joseph’s daughter, Linda Karshan, describes her father’s battle with polio and how the experience resonates with the Covid-19 pandemic. This film is an edited sequence pulled from a larger, award-winning documentary by Ishmael Fiifi Annobil called, Linda Karshan: Covid-19 Conversation. The full film is available to view at lindakarshanstudio.com.