EMA Senior Medical Officer Explains “Access versus Evidence Tradeoff”

As Senior Medical Officer of the European Medicines Agency, Dr. Hans-Georg Eichler has advised the EMA Executive Director on scientific and public health issues since 2007. Dr. Eichler concurrently serves on several medical advisory boards at the Austrian Ministry of Health, and will serve as Co-Chair for our DIA 2016 Annual Meeting in June 2016, in Philadelphia. In this conversation with DIA Global Forum Deputy Director Dr. Alberto Grignolo, Dr. Eichler shares his hopes for the utility of big data and real world data, and other critical issues in drug development and regulatory science.