In Doug Ford's 2018 mandate letters, obtained by Global News, the premier laid out his high expectations for incoming cabinet ministers and plan to ensure integrity. [Global]

The question of why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner isn’t just an intellectual exercise – around 600,000 people die from the disease each year – and its answer isn’t just a scientific one.  The malaria parasite is complex, making it much more difficult to develop a vaccine than usual. But at the heart of the issue, especially in recent decades, was a lack of financial incentive and urgency. Malaria primarily affects the global poor, whose ability to spend on healthcare is limited. Companies who invent solutions for the poor face pressure to keep prices so low that it is hard to profit, on top of the fact that vaccines tend to make less money than other medicines.
Advance Market Commitments, a way of promising to buy products that don’t yet exist, could help overcome these barriers, encourage investment in vaccines for other diseases, and improve on the vaccines we currently have. [Works in Progress]