Latin America’s COVID-19 Regulatory Response

Latin America, a region of more than 640 million people, is experiencing significant outbreaks of COVID-19 since its first confirmed case on February 25, 2020. Health regulatory authorities are required to adapt to new challenges as the regions face medical supply shortages and halted clinical trials. “In our region, governments will learn even more the value of an independent regulatory authority that does regulation based on science and scientific evidence,” says Cammilla Horta Gomes, Latin America Regulatory Policy Lead at Roche, Brazil. She discusses the outbreak’s impact on the region’s regulatory landscape and the solutions that have been implemented to improve regulatory efficiencies in the face of the outbreak.