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In June 2022 an international delegation of scientists from the United States, the Caribbean and Africa traveled to Havana, Cuba for a three-day fact-finding mission to better understand Cuba’s COVID-19 vaccine development and vaccination efforts. The delegation was comprised of experts in public health, infectious diseases, biotechnology, and vaccine research and development. The purpose of the fact-finding mission was three-fold: first, to learn how and why a relatively small country of some 11 million people—one facing considerable economic hardships—chose to develop, manufacture and deploy its own vaccines; second, to understand the country’s strategy for vaccine rollout and its preliminary results; and third, to explore Cuba’s approach to science in the context of public health, with implications for what a safe, effective Cuban vaccine might have for COVID-19 vaccine equity— particularly for the most vulnerable in the Global South.