Dara Corrigan Addresses the Alliance and more

Advocacy at a Glance offers you the bullet point summary of current advocacy issues associated with the goals of the Alliance for a Stronger FDA.

• Dara Corrigan, the FDA's Associate Commissioner for Regulatory Affairs, Addressed the Full Membership at the Alliance’s Quarterly Membership Meeting: Earlier this week, Alliance Members heard first-hand how the Office of Regulatory Affairs works with the other centers and how resource constraints impact it’s ability to carry out its strategic priorities. To view Associate Commissioner Corrigan’s presentation from the event please click here.

• Stronger FDA Advertisement Campaign: As discussed this past week at the Quarterly Membership Meeting, the Alliance is preparing an advertisement campaign advocating increased FDA funding. At the appropriate time, we will place the ad in several Capitol Hill publications. We are currently working to get Alliance members to sign on to the advertisement.

• Debt Ceiling Negotiations -- The Latest: Please see this week's Analysis and Commentary.