Q&A: As sci­ence gets its mo­ment, J&J’s glob­al brand stew­ard Seema Ku­mar aims to am­pli­fy the peo­ple be­hind the dis­cov­er­ies

In the ear­ly days of the pan­dem­ic, there was a mad scram­ble for in­for­ma­tion. What was a coro­n­avirus, how like­ly was a vac­cine and how soon could it be de­vel­oped?

At John­son & John­son, where Janssen sci­en­tists were al­ready at work on vac­cine can­di­dates even be­fore Covid-19 was of­fi­cial­ly a pan­dem­ic, Seema Ku­mar, along with her glob­al health com­mu­ni­ca­tions team, no­ticed that in­for­ma­tion void and jumped in with an idea.

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