The Roger E. Joseph Prize

In 1978, the first Joseph Prize was presented to Victor Kugler, who risked his and his loved ones’ lives to shelter Anne Frank and her family.

For the past 44 years, the Joseph Prize has been presented to outstanding individuals, organizations, and institutions whose work fulfills the highest ethical and humanitarian values of our tradition.

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Recipients of The Roger E. Joseph Prize (1978-2022)

The 2022 Roger E. Joseph Prize was presented to Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, at the New York Ordination ceremonies on May 8, 2022.

“The 2022 Roger E. Joseph Prize is presented to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, whose global mission, defined at its inception in 2000 as inspired by the conviction that all lives have equal value, has saved lives and protected people’s health by greatly increasing the equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.”

• Whose partnership with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is strengthening primary health care and bringing us closer to the sustainable development goal of universal health coverage,
• Whose humanitarian initiative has helped vaccinate almost half of the world’s children, against deadly and debilitating infectious diseases by providing affordable vaccines for the poorest of countries,
• Who, by improving access to new and under-used vaccines for millions of the most vulnerable children, is boosting the economies of lower-income countries and making the world safer for everyone,
• Who, in co-leading COVAX, the vaccine pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, has so far shipped nearly 1.2 billion doses of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines globally, with the majority distributed to lower-income economies supported through the Gavi Advance Market Commitment,
• Who, since 2000, in vaccinating over 900 million children around the world and thereby preventing 15 million future deaths, has ensured that no one is left behind.

• And whose impact on the generations of today and tomorrow exemplifies the Talmudic teaching that “to save one life is to save an entire world.”