Professor Jim Al-Khalili
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2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 15 Jun
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Hello.
From building a makeshift chemistry lab in his wardrobe as a child, and years later setting his own shattered leg after a climbing accident, to more recently raising billions of dollars to help vaccinate the world during the Covid pandemic, Dr Seth Barclay has never been one to do things by halves.
Seth's career as an epidemiologist has revolved around one big problem, that vaccines save lives, but only if people can get them.
His four decades in the field have taken him around the world, from helping to build Uganda's first HIV surveillance system and founding the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, to leading Gavi, the vaccine alliance, for more than a decade, overseeing the immunisation of hundreds of millions of children worldwide.
And when Covid-19 struck, Seth founded COVAX, the global initiative designed to stop wealthy nations monopolising vaccines.
So it's no surprise that he doesn't pull his punches when it comes to calling out misinformation and believes public health messaging has to get back to the science.
He says we need to care about this.
People must understand that vaccinating the world is self-interest as much as humanitarian.
It's a strong message.
Whether it's getting through to the right people remains to be seen.
But we'll get to that.
For now, Dr. Seth Barkley, welcome to The Life Scientific.
Thanks for having me.
Now, Seth, I think we have to start by acknowledging that this is a particularly strange time in vaccine science.
There's a huge amount of anti-vax propaganda and disinformation floating about.
How have we got to this point?
Yeah.
Well, of course, on a more positive note, we have seen some amazing success stories around vaccines in the past few decades.
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