ACT-Accelerator

The Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator) is a multinational collaboration, and multistakeholder initiative including the World Health Organization, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), FIND, GAVI the Vaccine Alliance, the Global Fund, UNICEF, Unitaid, Wellcome, the World Bank and governments, to raise financial support of accelerated research and development, production, and globally-equitable access to COVID-19 tests, therapies, and vaccines.

ACT-Accelerator is funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Cisco, COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, Diagnostics Consortium for COVID-19, Fidelity, FIND, Gates Philanthropy Partners, Gavi, the Global Fund, Goldman Sachs, Google, Mastercard, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Reed Hastings (co-founder of Netflix), Rockefeller Foundation, Shell, Thistledown Foundation, TikTok, UNICEF, Unitaid, United Nations Development Programme, Vaccine Forward Initiative, Visa Foundation, Wellcome Trust, WHO Foundation, and the World Health Organization (WHO).