page_title: Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations
section_title: Mission
hierarchical_section_title: Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations / History / Mission
caption_attribution_description: English: Continuation of the moribund map located at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Ebola_Outbreak_-_1_October_2014.svg
context_page_description: The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations is a foundation that takes donations from public, private, philanthropic, and civil society organisations, to finance independent research projects to develop vaccines against emerging infectious diseases.
  CEPI is focused on the World Health Organisation's "blueprint priority diseases", which include: the Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus, the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, the Nipah virus, the Lassa fever virus, and the Rift Valley fever virus, as well as the Chikungunya virus and the hypothetical, unknown pathogen "Disease X". CEPI investment also requires "equitable access" to the vaccines during outbreaks, although subsequent CEPI policy changes may have compromised this criteria.
  CEPI was conceived in 2015 and formally launched in 2017 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It was co-founded and co-funded with US$460 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Wellcome Trust, and a consortium of nations, being Norway, Japan, Germany; to which the European Union and Britain subsequently joined. CEPI is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
context_section_description: The founding mission of CEPI was "equitable access" in pandemics: selling vaccines to developing nations at affordable prices. Affordable access to existing patented vaccines had long been a concern for the medical community, and concern mounted in the wake of the struggle to get access to vaccine in the 2013-2016 Ebola epidemic. Averting a repetition of this crisis was the motivating factor behind founding CEPI.
caption: The struggle to get access to vaccine in the 2013-2016 Ebola epidemic was one of the factors motivating the creation of the CEPI
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