Asia Pacific must fix its broken vaccine system

Prevailing zero-sum mentality and parochialism need to be overcome

Malcolm Turnbull and Syaru Shirley Lin

October 25, 2021 05:00 JST

Indonesian President Joko Widodo talks with locals during a visit to inspect a door-to-door mass vaccination program against COVID-19 in North Kalimantan province on October 19. Many Asia Pacific countries including Indonesia have struggled to reach minimal vaccination targets. © Reuters

Malcolm Turnbull was prime minister of Australia from 2015-2018 and is a co-chair of the Reform for Resilience Commission. Syaru Shirley Lin is the Compton Visiting Professor at the Miller Center of the University of Virginia and Chair of the Asia-Pacific Hub of the Reform for Resilience Commission.