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Transparency and FDA

CRIT Program Mission Statement

crit logoTo promote health by improving the integrity and transparency of biomedical and clinical research

CRIT Program

The Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency (CRIT) is an inter-disciplinary initiative with a goal to enhance the quality and transparency of the research base for medical products. While no longer actively grant funded, CRIT continues to pursue selective research, advocacy, and litigation to ensure that the clinical evidence that supports and informs our understanding of the safety and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other medical products is accurate, comprehensive, accessible, and reliable. The lack of transparency and integrity in clinical research has had serious consequences for patient and clinicians. Current legal structures and research practices are not adequate and efforts to understand and improve clinical research transparency and reporting are needed.

By influencing stakeholders engaged in the clinical research process and in translating these findings for clinical care, CRIT focused and magnified the impact of our and others’ scholarship, policy analysis and legal action, advancing the field of research integrity, open science, and informing public discourse.

CRIT aimed to

  • Achieve a legal and regulatory environment that promotes rigorous clinical research and supports regulatory and clinical decisions that are grounded in high-quality research and accessible data and results.
  • Strengthen the integrity of research of medical products by ensuring that data is both rigorous and reliable, and by facilitating public access to and independent analysis of clinical trial data and results.
  • Conduct legal, public health and health policy research that identifies strengths and weakness of our existing system for facilitating evidence generation and transparency, and developing and evaluating alternative approaches
  • Provide the public and key policymakers with tools that enhance and facilitate open access to data, research results, and other relevant information about medical products.

Funding

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Directors

Gregg Gonsalves
Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Law and Co-Director, Global Health Justice Partnership

Gregg Gonsalves is an Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Law at Yale Law School, the co-director of the Global Health Justice Partnership, and a leading HIV/AIDS activist. Gonsalves is…

Amy Kapczynski
Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Global Health Justice Partnership

Amy Kapczynski is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School, Faculty Co-Director of the Law and Political Economy Project,…

David Schulz
Floyd Abrams Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law

David A. Schulz is Director of the Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic, where he serves as the Floyd Abrams Clinical Lecturer and a Senior Research Scholar, and is Senior Counsel to the…

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