Project Overview

The Pew Prescription Project

The Pew Prescription Project is an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts to promote consumer safety through reforms in the approval, manufacture and marketing of prescription drugs, as well as through initiatives to encourage evidence-based prescribing. The Pew Prescription Project conducts rigorous nonpartisan research related to federal oversight of drug safety to better illuminate problems and potential solutions.

 
Current goals include:    

-passage of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act

-passage of the Independent Drug Education and Outreach Act

-improvements in federal law and regulation to improve FDA oversight of drug manufacturing,

-advancing evidence-based prescribing practices, and

-ensuring the clinical safety of drugs for children.
 

The Pew Prescription Project builds on the accomplishments of The Prescription Project, a two-year campaign created in 2007 by The Pew Charitable Trusts and led by Community Catalyst in partnership with the Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP) to advance policies to address conflicts of interest created by pharmaceutical marketing and increase physician reliance on independent evidence of drug effectiveness. The Project’s work contributed to the creation of new conflict-of-interest policies at numerous academic medical centers and professional medical associations, as well as to new physician-industry disclosure measures adopted or proposed through state and federal legislation.