From climate change to gender equality: are vaccines the key to the UN 2030 goals?

As demonstrated once again in these pandemic years, vaccines are perhaps the most powerful tools available to public health, capable of saving millions of human lives with a simple sting. That’s not all, he argues on the pages of Science Translational Medicine a group of experts from academic circles and the pharmaceutical industry, including Rino Rappuoli, scientific director of the Siena Biotechnopole: the beneficial effects of vaccinations also reverberate in fields not directly connected with the world of health, such as gender equality , the fight against poverty and climate change.