Dr. Seth Berkley, president of the non-profit group, notes, in a Reuters report, that the threat posed by bird flu shows the lack of long-term thinking when it comes to vaccines.
"The whole system for vaccines is not aligned properly," says Berkley. "We have to find better ways to accelerate research, to finance research and to create incentives for pharmaceutical companies."
He plans, according to the report, to lobby for such commitments in discussions with policymakers at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.
