Acknowledgements
The author thanks Bruce Y Lee (University of Pittsburgh), Suerie Moon (Harvard School of Public Health), Daniel Berman (Medicin Sans Frontieres Access Campaign), Christin Pope (CDC) and Bruce G Weniger (Chiang Mai University) for their spirited presentations and conversations shared during the conference. The author also thanks Janet A Jokela, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana, for her feedback on earlier drafts of this article. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author, and do not reflect the views of the presenters or panelist at the conference, the United States Federal Government or the National Science Foundation.
Financial & competing interests disclosure
The author’s research on vaccine pricing is supported in part by the National Science Foundation (CMMI-1161458). The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.