Transforming Evidence Generation to Support Health and Health Care Decisions

Robert M Califf¹, Melissa A Robb¹, Andrew B Bindman¹+27

• ¹From the Office of the Commissioner (R.M.C., R.E.S.) and the Centers for Drug Evaluation and Research (M.A.R., J. Woodcock), Biologics Evaluation and Research (P.W.M.), and Devices and Radiological Health (J.S.), Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, the Office of the Director (A.B.B.) and the Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement (C.D.), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (J.P.B.), the Office of the Director (F.S.C.), and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (P.K.) and Office of Extramural Research Activities (M.L.), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore (P.H.C., A.M.S.) - all in Maryland; formerly the U.S. Army Office of the Surgeon General Pharmacovigilance Center, Falls Church, VA (T.S.C.); the Office of the Under Secretary for Health, Department of Veterans Affairs (D.J.S.), the Office of Health Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, (N.D.L., S.R.S.), the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (K.B.D.), and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (B.V.W., P.J.W.), Department of Health and Human Services, the National Academy of Medicine (V.J.D., J.M.M.), and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (R.L.F., J.V.S.), Washington, DC; the Center for Medication Safety, Department of Veterans Affairs, Hines, IL (F.E.C.); the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard University (R.G.F.), the Million Veteran Program, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System-Division of Aging, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (J.M.G.), and the Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine (J. Woodson), Boston; and the Office of Public Health Scientific Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (C.R.).