Robert Agyarko, the lead advisor on outbreaks and epidemics at Africa Risk Capacity, is an international development and global health expert with over 25 years work experience including with WHO, UNICEF, the Global Fund, and African Leaders Malaria Alliance. He has supported numerous African countries to control infectious diseases, including malaria, HIV/AIDS, Ebola and more recently, COVID-19.
There is still time for high-income countries to redistribute an expected surplus of more than 1 billion vaccines by the end of this year, and thereby avoid the loss of up to 2.8 million lives.
