Healthcare Policy Lobbyist (Biotech)

About the initiative

Clinical trials in the United States take too long, cost too much, and are too tangled in outdated rules — and the country develops far fewer of the therapies it could. The Clinical Trial Abundance Initiative exists to change that at the root: by reforming the federal policy and law that govern how trials are run, so that high-quality trials become dramatically faster, cheaper, and simpler to conduct.

We are a new, founder-led effort backed by a coalition of leading science philanthropies. The 2027 reauthorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) is a rare, high-leverage window to move real reform — and we are building both the organization and the coalition to make the most of it, and to sustain momentum well beyond it. We draw on what already works abroad, from Australia's notification-based trial pathway to reforms across the UK and elsewhere.

What this role is — and isn't

This is a policy and law reform role, not an operations or access role. The work is to change the rules — the federal policy and law governing clinical trials — so that more trials can be launched, run, and approved, faster and at lower cost.

To be direct about scope: you will not be operating or running trials, and the role is not focused on trial access, diversity, inclusion, or equity. Those aims matter, but they are a different kind of work. This role exists to make trials themselves faster, cheaper, and more abundant to conduct —