AUDIO: The FDA And Over-the-Counter Oral Contraception


July 26, 2022 | Lutheran Public Radio


On July 22, 2022, EPPC Fellow David Gortler joined the Issues, Etc podcast to discuss how FDA approvals of over-the-counter contraception puts womens’ health at risk.

Listen here.

David Gortler, Pharm.D. FCCP is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center whose work focuses on FDA oversight and accountability. Dr. Gortler is a pharmacologist and pharmacist and a Yale-trained bench research scientist in molecular biology with a subspecialty in the field of vascular medicine.  He was a professor of pharmacology and biotechnology at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he also served at Yale’s Center for Bioethics, and was an FDA Medical Officer who was later appointed by the White House to serve on the FDA’s Senior Executive Leadership Team as senior advisor to the FDA Commissioner.


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