Kevin A. Klock

Kevin A. Klock is senior vice president, chief operating officer and general counsel at the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) and adjunct professor and scholar at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He works and teaches at the intersection of global health, public and corporate governance, and public-private partnerships. Klock co-chaired Legal Tools for Pandemic Preparedness: WHO Collaborating Center Support for New Coordinating Mechanisms and played key roles in standing-up the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), developing the Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines initiative (ACTIV), and designing and managing the governance of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

 

Pandemic prevention workers in protective suits cross a street as COVID-19 outbreaks continue.
Governance

Safeguarding the Pandemic Agreement from Disinformation

by Alexandra Finch, Kevin A. Klock, Lawrence O. Gostin, Sam F. Halabi, Sarah Wetter

A sustained disinformation campaign worldwide is undermining the highly anticipated pandemic agreement

During a lockdown, a man in a mask, red pants, and a black shirt prays outside a bright orange temple that is closed due to a COVID-19 outbreak, in Shanghai, China, on May 30, 2022. in front of a temple
Governance

What Nations Owe Each Other Before the Next Pandemic

by Lawrence O. Gostin, Kevin A. Klock, Sam F. Halabi, Katie Gottschalk, Katherine Ginsbach, Kashish Aneja

A pandemic treaty will need to contain fresh requirements

A blue, purple, and yellow skylight hovers above Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates his re-election during the 75th World Health Assembly at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 24, 2022.
Governance

At Long Last, Member States Agree to Fix the World Health Organization's Financing Problem

by Alexandra Finch, Kevin A. Klock, Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin

Here's what needs to happen next

People wander through a COVID memorial made of 26,661 white flags at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California, on November 20, 2021.
Governance

No Future But A Shared Future

by Lawrence O. Gostin, Kevin A. Klock, Sam F. Halabi, Katie Gottschalk, Katherine Ginsbach

An excerpt from "Legal Tools for Pandemic Preparedness"