What this role is — and isn’t
This is a policy and law reform role, not an operations or access role. The work is to change the rules — the federal policy and law governing clinical trials — so that more trials can be launched, run, and approved, faster and at lower cost.
To be direct about scope: you will not be operating or running trials, and the role is not focused on trial access, diversity, inclusion, or equity. Those aims matter, but they are a different kind of work. This role exists to make trials themselves faster, cheaper, and more abundant to conduct — by reforming the system that governs them.
This is a founding leadership role, working in close partnership with the initiative’s Chief Science Officer to build the effort from the ground up. It runs on two horizons at once.
In the near term, you are the initiative’s credible face in policy — the person who can sit across from a Senate HELP or House Energy & Commerce staffer, an FDA official, a hospital system’s leadership, or a biotech CEO, and be taken seriously by all of them. You help shape the legislative and regulatory reform agenda and drive it into the PDUFA 2027 window and its implementation.
Over the medium term, you build the field. There is no standing constituency for clinical trial abundance today; your job is to create one — a durable, formidable coalition of companies, investors, researchers, patient organizations, and policymakers who will carry this work long after any single legislative moment.