PPP needed to address health crisis – experts

FLORIDA: A deeper level of public-private partnership (PPP) that supports transparency, innovation and factual information to address the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and other emerging global health problems is badly needed today, several observers said.

“If we want to have significant change, governments alone cannot do it, companies alone cannot do it. I think the first and most important thing in my view is to factually explain to people what the problems we are facing, not demagogically, not based on politics, but based on facts,” André Calantzopoulos, the chief executive officer who leads the transformation of Philip Morris International (PMI), said in the “Conversations on Leadership” virtual panel discussion held last Sept. 29, 2020.