The Scope of Things Podcast

Dan Drozd on How Non-interventional Studies Can Change the Clinical Research Game

Non-interventional studies are essential for understanding how treatments work in the real world, but traditional approaches often struggle with patient retention, site burden, and inefficiency.

In this episode of The Scope of Things podcast, PicnicHealth Chief Medical Officer Dan Drozd, MD, MSc, sits down with host Deborah Borfitz to explore how clinical research can do better. From leveraging AI and technology to reduce participant burden, to designing studies that generate robust evidence at scale, Dan shares practical tactics for raising the bar in evidence generation and offers his predictions for what's ahead in 2026.