What can phar­ma do to re­build trust in sci­ence? For­mer Pres­i­dent Oba­ma has some ideas — and oth­er thoughts for the in­dus­try

Klick Health co-founder and CEO Leerom Se­gal sat down for a one-on-one with for­mer Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma in New York on Thurs­day night for a wide-rang­ing dis­cus­sion about his time in of­fice and cur­rent po­lit­i­cal di­vi­sive­ness in the US, but al­so on some health and sci­ence top­ics.

Se­gal, for in­stance, asked the for­mer chief ex­ec­u­tive about the de­cline of trust in sci­ence — that in 2022 “vac­cines are still con­tro­ver­sial and maybe even po­lit­i­cal”— and how it can be re­in­stat­ed.

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