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vaccine, it should be <~?~Insert art 033_Gate_9780593534489_art_r1> Sister Astridah Banda is a Catholic nun and social worker from Zambia. Here we can see her delivering important information about COVID-19 on Yatsani Community Radio in Lusaka, Zambia. In any outbreak, the world needs many Sister Astridahs, and other efforts too. Driving up vaccination rates requires both supply and demand--you need to have enough vaccines, and people need to want them. As I've argued in this chapter, innovative policies and technologies will help us make and deliver enough vaccines for everyone. Making sure the demand is there too, by helping the uncertain become certain--and by persuading the unwilling as well--will be just as important. *** This chapter boils down to two key points. First: As awful as COVID is, the world is lucky to have made vaccines as quickly as we did. And second: We've only touched the surface of how good vaccines can be. Because we can't assume we'll be so lucky next time--and because there are phenomenal opportunities for saving lives beyond the threat of pandemics--the world should be pursuing an ambitious agenda to make vaccines even better. I see seven areas that should be priorities for funding and research: Universal vaccines. Thanks to the advent of the mRNA vaccine, it should be possible to create injections that target several variants of the same pathogen, or even multiple pathogens. We could have vaccines that protect you from