Pharma, tech and social media companies join forces with WHO to launch the Tobacco Cessation Consortium during World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany
At the World Health Summit in Berlin, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus formally launched the Tobacco Cessation Consortium, a group of private and public sector partners dedicated to helping people access essential smoking cessation support and treatment.
This consortium will support WHO’s efforts to stop smoking and find mutually beneficial ways to expand access to smoking cessation tools and medicines for tobacco users. The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of working together and leveraging each other’s resources to address public health.