Description: Dr. Gianna “Gigi” McMillan, an academic bioethicist and MRCT Center pediatrics project member, recorded in-depth interviews with three young people from India, Spain, and the US to create this 2-part video series, Time to Listen.
Part 1: Young people share their experience in clinical research, including: what it is like when a doctor or researcher talks to them as a child or adolescent; the best ways to give children and adolescents information; and what the children and adolescents want the adults to know.
Developed by: MRCT Center Health Literacy Workgroup
Thank you to Dr. Farah Asif and colleagues at the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital And Research Centre, Lahore, Pakistan for helping us translate, adapt text, and provide these flyers in Urdu.
In 2020, the MRCT Center launched a pilot project to develop a plain language clinical research glossary with an amazing workgroup of patient advocates and other representatives from across the clinical research industry.
The team worked together to create clinical research definitions and explanations that are:
As of July 1, 2015, the MRCT Center has moved administratively to the Division of Global Health Equity, under the leadership of Dr. Paul Farmer, at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), a Harvard teaching hospital. The Division of Global Health Equity serves as an academic and research home for more than 40 Harvard and BWH faculty who are engaged in teaching, patient care and research around the world and domestically.
The integration of the MRCT Center into the Division offers a community of colleagues and a network of thought leaders globally, as well as infrastructure for program strengthening and expansion. The mission of the MRCT Center will remain unchanged and will be strengthened through this new partnership. The MRCT Center will continue to have a collaborative relationship with Harvard, including the continued involvement of multiple Harvard faculty members and student interns.
In the process of this move, the URL of the MRCT Center’s website changed to: mrctcenter.org, and our email addresses changed to @MRCTcenter.org. Web searches and emails to previous addresses will be redirected. The general email box for the center is admin@MRCTcenter.org. Our full name is now: The MRCT Center of Harvard and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
