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Prime Policy Group is repping Britain’s AstraZeneca on COVID-19 vaccine and therapy development.
The Food and Drug Administration has not approved AstraZeneca’s vaccine for emergency use in the US, as it did for shots developed by Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and Pfizer.
The Biden administration plans to donate 60M doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to India and other countries that have been hit hard by the pandemic. It already has sent 4M AstraZeneca shots to Canada and Mexico.
Prime Policy Group’s CEO Scott Pastrick, chairman Charlie Black and vice chairman Rich Meade are part of the AstraZeneca team.
It works for AstraZeneca as a subcontractor to sister WPP company, BCW.
Healing the Sick Care System: Why People Matter, a new book from FINN Partners chair global health and purpose Gil Bashe, says that the current healthcare system is not broken because it lacks innovation, talent or investment, but because it has lost sight of the people it exists to serve.
Jeff Smokler, former president at healthcare specialist imre, joins Washington-based Avoq to head its PA practice.
Supreme Group, healthcare marketing and communications platform, has merged its Amendola Communications (Fountain Hills, AZ) and Health+Commerce (Newport Beach, CA) units to form Supreme Communications, a full-service PR shop, under Ketchum alum Nicky Battle.
Even as technology changes the rules of engagement, digital health brands still control the most powerful tool they have—their story.
