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Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan on drug development & AI’ s role in disease treatment

Company: Novartis Revenue: US $ 50bn Employees: 76,000 Founded: 1996

Vas Narasimhan, the Harvard-trained physician running Novartis, argues a drugmaker’ s social impact is the drug itself, and prices some of Novartis’ s accordingly. Novartis runs global health programmes targeting malaria, leprosy and sickle cell disease across sub-Saharan Africa, pairing them with access plans that put newer therapies into low-income markets at not-for-profit prices. It is philanthropy with a supply chain, run by a CEO who still talks like an epidemiologist. businesschief. com 41