Meeting Summary
Released on: July 13, 2020
Developed by: MRCT Center Bioethics Collaborative
Focus Area: Quality & Transparency
Dr. Barbara E. Bierer discusses “COVID Trials Threatened by Shifting Surges” in MedPageToday
“COVID Trials Threatened by Shifting Surges” — MRCT Center Faculty Director, Dr. Barbara E. Bierer, discussed the state of clinical trials in the COVID-19 era, the need for clinical trial networks to be in place beforehand to speed broad multisite collaborations and the benefit of the COVID-19 Collaboration Platform in MedPageToday.
Deborah A. Zarin featured in STAT’s The Pharmalot View
MRCT Center Program Director, Deborah A. Zarin contributed to STAT’s The Pharmalot View “Where’s the data? In a pandemic, now is no time to sit on Covid-19 trial results.”
Response to European Commission’s request for feedback regarding the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Public Comments
Comments provided on: April 29, 2020
Comments provided to : European Commission
Diagnostic Testing for COVID-19: Considering False Positive and False Negative Results by Deborah A. Zarin, MD, MRCT Center Program Director and Joseph Lau, MD
Diagnostic tests for COVID-19 are central to most proposed plans for relaxing physical distancing and related policies.
The following work by Deborah A. Zarin, MD MRCT Center Program Director and Joseph Lau, MD ,Professor Emeritus of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, Brown University School of Public Health serves as a reminder about what we know and don’t know about these tests, how frequently they might produce inaccurate results, and how these inaccuracies might affect their utility in different potential scenarios. Read Paper >
Pragmatic Clinical Trials and Real-World Evidence
Time for NIH to lead on data sharing
Publication
Published on: March 20, 2020
Published in: Science
Disruptive and Avoidable: GDPR Challenges to Secondary Use of Data
Publication
Published on: March 2, 2020
Published in: European Journal of Human Genetics
Early Termination of Clinical Trials
Featured on Science Friday: Dr. Deborah Zarin, MRCT Center Program Director of Advancing the Clinical Trial Enterprise
Listen to Dr. Deborah Zarin, MRCT Center Program Director of Advancing the Clinical Trial Enterprise and former director of ClinicalTrials.gov with Science Magazine journalist, Charles Piller on Science Friday discussing recent investigations on ClinicalTrials.gov reporting practices.
Science Friday episode “Drug Researchers Refuse To Follow The Law. The Government Isn’t Stopping Them.”
Science Magazine article “FDA and NIH let clinical trial sponsors keep results secret and break the law” by Charles Piller featuring Dr. Deborah Zarin.
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