Regulators Promote Reliance as 21st Century Best Practice

“How do you do the process of regulation? Not the science of regulation, but how do you do the process of regulation more flexibly and agilely?” asks Murray Lumpkin, Deputy Director Integrated Development and Lead for Global Regulatory Systems Initiatives, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “We certainly hope that the openness that regulators around the world have to this concept of reliance, of referencing, will evolve and strengthen because of what we're all going through now,” says John Lim, founding Executive Director of the Center of Regulatory Excellence at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. (Listen to our previous Pandemic Vaccine Preparedness podcast with Dr. Lumpkin.)