Kevin A. Klock, SVP, COO, and General Counsel, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health

Kevin A. Klock, SVP, COO, and General Counsel, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health

• Kevin A. Klock is the Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and General Counsel of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH).
• Klock was formerly Head of Governance and Assistant Secretary for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and Company Secretary for the Gavi Campaign. 

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Public Private Partnerships can help bridge the gap between the public and private sectors, leveraging their respective strengths to drive progress in healthcare. The episode discusses various forms of PPPs, their potential benefits, and the challenges they may face. It also highlights examples of successful PPPs in the health sector and recommends ways to enhance their effectiveness. In this episode, Kevin A. Klock explores the importance of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in promoting health research and innovation. 

00:43- About Kevin A. Klock

• Kevin A. Klock is the Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and General Counsel of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH).
• Klock was formerly Head of Governance and Assistant Secretary for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and Company Secretary for the Gavi Campaign. 
• He also co-chaired Legal Tools for Pandemic Preparedness: WHO Collaborating Center Support for New Coordinating Mechanisms, high-level meetings that informed the World Health Organization and global community ahead of a historic special session of the World Health Assembly on options for a treaty or other instrument on pandemic prevention and response.

01:11- Overview of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health and its primary mission.

• FNIH was actually the brainchild of the US Congress. 
• Their main aim was to support the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is the world’s leading biomedical research agency. 
• As an organization, we were created by Congress to accelerate the progress of medical research and ultimately find treatments and cures for patients.
•  We achieve this goal by forming and leading alliances between public and private entities, which helps advance groundbreaking innovations that benefit patients. 
• It’s an incredibly exciting mission, and we’re proud to play a part in it.

05:40- How do these public-private partnerships support scientific research and innovation?

• A public-private partnership is when the government and private sector work together on a project or enterprise, combining their unique strengths and sharing decision-making, implementation, and consequences. 
• This partnership allows for a collaborative approach that can result in greater success than either party could achieve alone. 
• While some may argue against partnerships, believing that one partner should take full responsibility, this can lead to missed opportunities and assumes that one partner has all the answers and funding. 
• Well-built and well-managed partnerships can be very powerful.

24:07- What strategies do the FNIH employ to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in scientific research and within the organization itself?

• From my perspective, operationalizing equity is essential to our values, which include collaboration, integrity, gratitude, and equity. 
• It requires effort and intentionality to make it a part of who we are as an organization. 
• One way I tried to show my colleagues that it mattered to me was by co-chairing an effort with Georgetown University, UN AIDS, and the Fogarty International Center at NIH to advise WHO policymakers on discrete issues for the emerging pandemic community. 
• The third project was on advancing equity, and we got together people from around the world in diverse disciplines to ideate things that will work. 
• Our colleagues from resource-constrained countries said that our meeting was different because everyone had a leadership role, and we treated them the same way we treated our own staff.

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• Kevin A. Klock is the Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and General Counsel of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH).
• Klock was formerly Head of Governance and Assistant Secretary for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and Company Secretary for the Gavi Campaign. 
• He also co-chaired Legal Tools for Pandemic Preparedness: WHO Collaborating Center Support for New Coordinating Mechanisms, high-level meetings that informed the World Health Organization and global community ahead of a historic special session of the World Health Assembly on options for a treaty or other instrument on pandemic prevention and response.