Vaccines: India’s advantage in a shifting western landscape
By: Swati Saxena, public health researcher and Suryaprabha Sadasivan, senior vice president, Chase Advisors.
Vaccines are often described as the silver bullets of health. Since the launch of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Expanded Programme on Immunisation in 1974, which introduced routine vaccines for preventable childhood diseases, millions of lives have been saved. Today, vaccines remain one of the most cost-effective and impactful public health interventions.
