Episode #4 - The Pharmaceutical Industry and COVID-19

The Benefits Connexion Podcast

Featuring Pamela Fralick, President, Innovative Medicines Canada.With host Denise Balch, President of Connex Health, Pamela Fralick provides new insights into the pharmaceutical industry response to COVID-19. Pamela will quantify the extent of international research into treatments and vaccines for COVID-19 and provide examples of the unprecedented collaboration between pharmaceutical companies large and small. Listeners will learn of the global initiatives to accelerate development, production and equitable access to diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines. This includes the announcement of the World Health Organization COVID-19 Tools (act) Accelerator initiative, the‘ Solidarity’ international clinical trial and the Canadian based CATCO 19 study. Plus you’ll hear about the important role Canada plays in clinical trails and the extent of trials globally as dwell as other unexpected ways that the Canadian pharmaceutical industry is responding during this pandemic.Recorded May 21, 2020.Find out more information on upcoming podcasts and webinars at https://connexhc.com