Physicians Committee for Responsible Med

CommunicationsWorking with physicians, health experts, and celebrities who serve as spokespeople, we inform, persuade, and inspire readers through strategic media relations, social media, digital communications, print publications, and advertisements. Our work was featured in traditional news outlets including Washington Post, New York Times, Newsweek, Baltimore Sun, BBC, Detroit News, New York Post, Oregonian, Sun Sentinel, STAT, ABC News, NBC News, Fox News, Science, MedicalXpress, Everyday Health, Womans World, MedPage Today, Science Magazine, Economic Times, and many more. Our doctor-authored op-eds have been published in major newspapers including Colorado Newsline, Detroit News, Cal Matters, Med Central, Med Page Today, Oregonian, and Utah News Dispatch. Print and online news coverage generated 3,024 news articles and an average of 6.57 million unique visitors per month. Our social media content created conversations daily among more than 1.4 million followers on 21 social media accounts. In FY 2025, 20.7 million accounts were reached across Meta platforms and X. YouTube's following grew to 491.3K, up 22K subscribers from the previous year, and our videos were viewed 4.3 million times. The Exam Room Podcast was downloaded more than 4.1 million times on podcast platforms in FY 2025 and nearly 25 million from its launch in 2018. Our website received 3,990,751 total page views in FY 2025. We completed more than 800 separately tracked print and display materials, promotional merchandise, and electronic graphics and e-publications. Good Medicine, the Physicians Committees 24-page magazine, keeps members informed and involved. Four issues of Good Medicine were published in FY 2025. Total print distribution was 303,322.

Research and Regulatory Affairs The Physicians Committee advances human-specific, nonanimal approaches in research, testing, and education through scientific support, policy change, training, and outreach. In fiscal year 2025, our scientists worked to overcome barriers to adoption of nonanimal methods by providing input to federal agencies through responses to Federal Register requests and presentations at agency meetings. We continue to lead a multi-institutional collaboration to document and reduce bias favoring animal use and to promote human-relevant approaches. To expand training, we provided direct instruction to agency staff, continuing education courses, and a regulatory program on nonanimal methods. We also supported scientific society webinars, reaching more than 6,000 scientists live, with many more accessing recordings. Our biennial Summer Immersion training program received the inaugural NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences education and training prize. Recognizing the need for global access, we launched a toxicology training program conducted fully in Spanish and expanded access to recorded trainings with subtitles in multiple languages. Our team published 15 peer-reviewed articles addressing bias in animal research, the limitations of animal ethics committees, xenotransplantation, and advances in new approach methodologies. We also continued efforts to modernize physician training by replacing animal use in residency programs. Largely as a result of our work, 99% of surveyed advanced trauma life support programs in the U.S. and Canada use nonanimal, human-based training methods. In addition, 97% of emergency medicine programs in the U.S. and Canada no longer use animals, and nearly 80% of surgery programs have replaced animals.