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Woodcock named Hahn’s principal medical adviser at FDA

January 6, 2021 12:06 AM UTC

Janet Woodcock has become principal medical adviser to FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn with a focus on the agency’s COVID-19 response, according to an internal FDA memo. 

In the role, Woodcock is working with Anand Shah, deputy commissioner for medical and scientific Affairs, on the agency’s COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery Preparedness Plan (PREPP) initiative. The goal of the initiative, which launched in August, is to identify improvements in policy, process and program operations to speed up the recovery from COVID-19 and strengthen the agency’s preparedness for future pandemics and other emergencies...