The World Health Organization (WHO) September 20, 2021, announced the appointment of Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, as its ambassador for Global Health Financing. He is widely credited with preventing a second Great Depression through his stewardship of the 2009 London G20 summit. He mobilized world leaders to commit an additional $1.1 trillion to restore credit, growth, and jobs.
The former UK PM had on (September 19) said “the failure of Boris Johnson, Joe Biden, and European Union leaders to agree on a plan to distribute the spare doses meant the world was facing a vaccine waste disaster,” The Guardian reported.
Mr. Brown has tirelessly called on wealthy nations as well as the private sector to ensure the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, advocating for a concerted global effort — rooted in science and sound economics – to save lives, end the pandemic and restore livelihoods the world over. He warned that more than 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses were due to expire and be “thrown away” unless global leaders urgently shared surplus supplies with the world’s poorest countries.