Episode 3 - Questions The Pharma Regulator Wouldn’t Answer (with Dr. Alan Black)

<p>In this episode of Broken Custodians, Molly and Ben Kingsley from UsForThem speak to former pharmaceutical industry insider Dr Alan Black.</p><p>They begin with a recent case in which Moderna was found to have allowed inappropriate payments to be offered to children to join a medical trial, and use it as a starting point to explore broader questions about ethics and accountability in the pharmaceutical industry.</p><p>Molly, Ben and Alan discuss how the pharmaceutical industry is regulated in the UK, and why self-regulation is failing the public. They also examine the role of government-backed public health messaging, the rarely-discussed concept of conditional marketing authorisations and its significance during the pandemic, and the warnings raised by the government’s ethics committee before it was sidelined and then shut down.</p><p>More broadly, this episode asks what the findings against Moderna reveal about public trust and the relationship between government and the pharmaceutical industry.</p><p>Broken Custodians follows paper trails, interrogates official claims and asks what went wrong, who benefited, and what it would take to do better.</p><p><br />Hosts: Molly Kingsley, Ben Kingsley </p><p>Senior Producer: Francesca Gilardi Quadrio Curzio</p><p>Video Editor &amp; Audio Producer: Andrija Klaric</p><p><br /></p>