Drug Information Association (DIA) 2020 Virtual Global Annual Meeting (June 14-18, 2020).

At the 56th Global Annual Meeting of the Drug Information Association (DIA), attendees met virtually during the height of the global COVID-19 pandemic for "rapid cross-stakeholder, cross-border collaboration" to support health worldwide. Sessions included presenters and speakers from regulatory, patient advocacy and academia sectors, with patients at the forefront of those discussions. This report covers various presentations and panel discussions from the 4-day meeting that focus on COVID-19, innovative trial designs spurred by a need to adapt amid a pandemic, digital health, novel products inspiring new regulatory standards, clinical trials, data collection and management, the need for more and better data and the ever-increasing importance of the patient perspective.