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The regulatory function is vital in making safe and effective healthcare products available worldwide. Individuals who ensure regulatory compliance and prepare submissions, as well as those whose main job function is clinical affairs or quality assurance are all considered regulatory professionals.
One of our most valuable contributions to the profession is the Regulatory Code of Ethics. The Code of Ethics provides regulatory professionals with core values that hold them to the highest standards of professional conduct.
Your membership opens the door to free learning resources on demand. Check out the Member Knowledge Center for free webcasts, publications and online courses.
Like all professions, regulatory is based on a shared set of competencies. The Regulatory Competency Framework describes the essential elements of what is required of regulatory professionals at four major career and professional levels.
Join the brightest minds in regulatory at the annual Regulatory Convergence. See the global regulatory community in action. Intensive workshops. Topical sessions. Meet ups with regulators. This is where it all comes together.
With so many global regulation changes, staying informed is a challenge. Join other regulatory professionals as you navigate the gray together.
For 20 years, our flagship publication, Fundamentals of US Regulatory Affairs, has been giving regulatory professionals the insights and answers they need, right at their fingertips.
There are hundreds of RAC testing centers available worldwide. Either RAC exam (Devices and Drugs) may be taken at any location. Find an upcoming exam at a location near you.
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The RAPS Awards Program celebrates individuals who have helped establish high standards for the regulatory profession and inspired the community to make extraordinary contributions to the field and to RAPS. The program recognizes leaders and change agents in the community, who support the RAPS organizational mission to develop and sustain a competent global regulatory workforce that drives good regulatory practice. Each year, RAPS selects outstanding recipients who have went above and beyond their regulatory professional expertise and commitments to provide for the greater good of regulatory affairs. These recipients receive awards such as the Founder's Award, Community Leadership Award and Patient-Centered Health Award. We have found that the world of regulatory is growing rather quickly and RAPS relies on the community to support our recognition programs so we can recognize the best of the best in the profession. Do you know of someone who has gone above and beyond? We want to know. Please submit/email their information to Paul Brooks at pbrooks@raps.org to start our vetting process. We appreciate you recognizing your colleagues and representing regulatory in the world we live in today.
Meet the Awardees
The Founder’s Award recognizes exemplary regulatory professionals and is the profession’s highest award. Honorees have shaped regulatory policy and practice; made a positive impact on the profession through education and mentoring; volunteered time to leadership pursuits such as serving on the RAPS board or Fellows program; promoted healthcare and patient well-being; advanced regulatory agility and raised awareness of the value of regulatory.
The Community Leadership Award recognizes RAPS members who have built networks and supported regulatory professionals in their communities. Awardees have acted as RAPS ambassadors; engaged in chapter or local activities, including networking and outreach, for at least three years; and partnered with other organizations to further the profession; and oresent and/or author as thought leaders in the regulatory profession. Patient-Centered Health Award recognizes groups, organizations or individuals who have made a significant impact to advance patient-centered policy, product development or regulatory decision making. Highly reputational, non-profit organizations for this award promote patient-centric healthcare to improve the lives of patients and caregivers; partnered with regulators/HCPs/governments/NGOs/industry to advance patient-centric regulatory decision making; provided education that has raised awareness of the challenges faced by patients and caregivers; and have been in the industry for more than three years. This is intended to be a periodic special recognition with 0-2 awards per annum. The award is geographically neutral and lifecycle agnostic (i.e. impact development through post-marketing). Ideally, awardees will have a RAPS connection (e.g. through engagement at Convergence, through Chapter events, through member engagement), however this is not mandatory. Nominees would be announced internally and externally to promote the importance of public health factor consideration (i.e. end user impact) within regulatory policy and frameworks.