An extremely low attrition rate is not necessarily positive for a scientific organization that benefits from new ways of thinking, US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf argued recently, putting a more positive spin on the agency’s hiring and retention challenges which are often thought of as something like a chronic illness for the FDA.
Califf’s New Spin On US FDA Staffing: Attrition Rate Is Too Low
Commissioner also talks drug shortages, difficulty getting key agency and industry priorities done in new pandemic legislation, and how legal challenges to FDA authority could impact pharma companies desire to develop new medicines.
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