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24 March 2022

Big Pharma: lessons from the pandemic

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Big Pharma: lessons from the pandemic

Professor Louise Kenny – Head of the Pandemic Institute, Liverpool

Ben Osborn – Managing Director of Pfizer UK

Dr Danny Sriskandarajah – CEO of Oxfam Great Britain

The past two years have been seminal for Big Pharma. When the world desperately needed Covid-19 vaccines, the pharmaceutical industry developed, produced, and provided them in record time.

For years campaigners have highlighted the moral ambiguity of profit-making from the discovery, development, and marketing of life-saving drugs. But during the Covid-19 pandemic, drug companies have been able to execute incredible expedited innovation to meet global needs and have collaborated in an unprecedented fashion with research organisations and governments to do so.

Has the industry changed for the better, and will these changes stick? Could the industry’s solutions-based model be applied elsewhere? How quickly could we solve the climate crisis or income inequality using this model of public-private partnership, streamlined approval processes, and industry agility?

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