Trials In Focus: A Call For Incentives To Help Drive Trial Diversity

 
• By Alaric DeArment
  
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Panelists at the BIO CEO & Investor meeting talked about ways to improve trial diversity. Also, GSK and Pfizer released retrospective analyses of diversity in their trials, while J&J is working to improve diversity with Stand Up To Cancer.

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The Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act, signed at the end of 2022 amid heightened attention to the importance of clinical trials enrolling diverse populations, requires clinical trial sponsors to submit “diversity action plans” for late-stage drug and device studies. But panelists at the recent BIO CEO & Investor Conference suggested more needs to happen for diversity to become the norm, including an effort by the entire health care sector and incentives to encourage diversity.

“I think a lot of this is going to come back to what are the economic incentives that we’ll try...

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