FDA veterans school Makary

The next FDA commissioner will have a mandate for disruptive change. Former and current agency leaders caution that advancing positive reforms will take time, can only be achieved with the collaboration of career staff, and could easily be blown off course by external crises or populist politics.

That doesn’t mean that change is impossible or unnecessary, FDA Commissioner Rob Califf, former commissioners Mark McClellan and Scott Gottlieb, and former Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock said...