Marisol Touraine

Marisol Touraine is a French politician who served as Minister of Social Affairs and Health under Prime Ministers Jean-Marc Ayrault, Manuel Valls, and Bernard Cazeneuve. ¹⁾. She is currently chair of the Executive Board of Unitaid. ^{2) 3)}

Touraine is a career vaccine proponent ⁴⁾ who worked to dramatically increase vaccine mandates in France (from 3 to 11). ⁵⁾

She was present at the inauguration of the Wuhan Institute of Virology's (WIV) Level 4 Biosafety Laboratory (BSL4), the first of its kind in all of China. The WIV planned to host 50 French researchers in residency who were to provide technical and safety training for researchers at the French-designed lab, though China canceled those plans soon after. ^{6) 7)}