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The MRCT Center engages diverse stakeholders to define emerging issues in global clinical trials and to create and implement ethical, actionable, and practical solutions.
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The MRCT Center is pleased to announce that the online Health Literacy Training for IRBs is now available! Watch the launch webinar HERE. Find the training resources HERE.

The MRCT Center launched the Equity by Design (EbD) Metrics Framework and User’s Guide, a tool designed to advance organizational diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts; orient users toward potential entry and follow-up strategies; and provide guidepost measures for assessing and reporting on progress. MORE

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Nov 08, 2022
MRCT CENTER VIRTUAL TRAINING INSPIRES LECTURERS IN INDONESIA

In October 2022, the MRCT Center delivered four modules as part of a virtual training to provide advanced learning for public and private university lecturers who teach in undergraduate and graduate biotechnology degree programs in Indonesia.

Sep 26, 2022
Virtual DSMC Training in the Philippines

In July 2022, the MRCT Center delivered a virtual training for members of the newly established Data Safety Monitoring Committee (DSMC) at the National Institutes of Health at the University of the Philippines in Manila, Philippines.

Apr 25, 2022
The MRCT Center concludes AVAREF virtual training course

The MRCT Center – AVAREF virtual training course for Ethics Review of Clinical Research concluded in April 2022. The course included participants from 22 different countries across Africa and was simultaneously translated into French.

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  • Feb 02, 2023
    MEETING OF THE BIOETHICS COLLABORATIVE

    Topic: Emergency Preparedness in Clinical Research We live in a destabilizing world, where natural disasters, wars, pandemics, and other disruptive events are becoming more common. In clinical research, such disruption is detrimental to research participants and to the advances in scientific knowledge that will benefit future patients.

  • Mar 02, 2023
    MEETING OF THE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND REGULATORY ROUNDTABLE (R3)

    Topics: (1) an overview of the FDA’s recent final guidance on clinical decision support (“CDS”) software, with a focus on its application to clinical research settings, and (2) the provisions of the Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act of 2022 (“FDORA”) related to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in clinical trial enrollment and promoting clinical […]

  • Mar 21, 2023
    Promoting Global Clinical Research in Children: Informing the Future

    The MRCT Center is pleased to announce our upcoming webinar, “Promoting Global Clinical Research in Children: Informing the Future,” the conclusion of the five-part virtual conference series on Advancing International Pediatric Clinical Research.

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