Novartis Looks To Take Its Diversity Show On The Road

Company In Early Stages Of International Expansion

Head of clinical trial diversity and inclusion Kim Fookes spoke with Scrip about Novartis’s US trial diversity initiatives and early plans to expand them abroad.

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Kim Fookes is only about a month into her role as global head of diversity and inclusion in clinical trials at Novartis AG, but her work to help improve clinical trial diversity – especially in the US – predates that by several months, and the company has been making efforts in that regard for multiple years. Now, Novartis is looking to take some of the lessons it has learned in the US abroad as well.

Fookes has worked for Novartis for two and a half years, joining in April 2019 from AbbVie Inc., and...

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