Professor Jim Al-Khalili
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535 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 15 Jun
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So it really was an extraordinary effort.
I mean, the Gavi work was intense and, you know, something I loved, but even more intense was Kovacs.
So I was actually pretty tired at the end of that.
And it's one of the reasons I made a decision not to jump right into another CEO role, but rather to do a portfolio of activities and write a book.
But I am still committed to the work that I did at Gavi, and I'm trying to, in essence, drive some of the same things from different angles now, from the private sector, from biotech companies, from new technologies that will make a difference.
I think, first of all, it needs to be seen as a problem.
So for the people who are still out there saying we shouldn't have vaccines, that vaccines aren't safe, they are contributing to the problem.
So we need to make sure, one, that we get good and truthful information out there, information based on science.
Without science, we are lost.
And second is really about dealing with the disinformation machines that are out there.
We have to understand that when you attack a specific vaccine, people may not remember that vaccine, but they remember an attack on vaccines suggesting maybe that vaccines in general are problematic.
So we really need a change in mindset.
And the loss of trust in governments and in science is a broader problem that is influencing that here.
It's a real challenge because from the beginning of vaccines, there has been vaccine hesitancy.
The first smallpox vaccines done here in the UK, there were wood carvings of people with cow horns growing out of their heads because they got vaccinated.
the cowpox vaccine.
And so that's always been a problem, but you could deal with it using local leaders or religious leaders or nurses or doctors.
All of a sudden, when you've got political leaders, when you have presidents, when you have secretaries of health providing disinformation, misinformation, it's a real challenge because a lot of people say,
What do they know that I don't know?
And that's a problem because it's very hard then to convince people to do otherwise.
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