Life After Woodcock: US FDA Drug Center’s Leadership Transition
Executive Summary
The elevation of the US FDA’s top drug regulator, Janet Woodcock, to oversee COVID-19 response efforts is being framed a temporary step as part of the crisis response. But it is also a try-out for the most significant leadership transition in drug regulation in the US in a generation.
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