EP148: Does It Really Matter If The Pharma Industry Is Or Is Not Trustworthy, with Dr. Jennifer Miller, Founder of Bioethics International and Creator of Good Pharma Scorecard

Jennifer E. Miller, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the NYU School of Medicine and President of the nonprofit, Bioethics International. She is also the Creator of the Good Pharma Scorecard, an index that ranks all new drugs and large pharmaceutical companies on their ethics and public health performance to help recognize good practices in companies, improve trustworthiness, and incentivize change where needed.  Prior to joining NYU, Dr. Miller was based at Harvard University. Dr. Miller currently serves on NYU's Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and Stem Cell Research Oversight IRB, as well as the J&J-NYU Compassionate-Use Advisory Committee (monitor). Previously, she served on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Task Force for Pediatric Emergency Mass Critical Care, the American Medical Association's (AMA) Advanced Disaster Life Support Education Consortium, as a consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and on the PCORI-NIH Collaboratory. A prolific writer, Dr. Miller has authored over 35 publications, including for Nature Medicine and Health Affairs. She was a Fox News pundit from 2009 to 2012 and remains a news commentator, frequently featured on CBS news, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg News, Forbes, and NPR. Dr. Miller's current work explores the ethics and governance of new drugs that are researched, developed, marketed, priced, and made accessible to patients globally. She also specializes in the ethics of data sharing. You can learn more at www.bioethicsinternational.org and view the Good Pharma Scorecard.