After decades as a major backer of global immunization efforts, the United States has been dropped from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance’s board, due to stalled funding under the Trump administration.
In 2025, Trump administration official Mark Kevin Lloyd joined Gavi’s board as the U.S. representative, occupying one of the five seats reserved for donor countries. But recent information on the organization’s website shows Lloyd is no longer listed as a board member. The reason, Gavi said, comes down to money.
A Gavi spokesperson told Devex, “Gavi’s donors are a self-organizing group that determines Board seat representation based on financial commitments for each strategy period. As the United States government has not yet pledged to Gavi it is currently not on the Gavi Board.”
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Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.
