The MRCT Center is pleased to promote the "Ethical Issues in Global Health Research" course which is being offered 22-25 June 2015 at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  

This course provides practical advice to improve an organization's ethics review process. Participants will explore their responsibilities in reviewing human research, gain tips for increasing review efficiency, and develop a better understanding of regulatory compliance issues while building a peer network to call upon after the program ends. Participants will also gain a deep understanding of the ethical issues faced by those performing human research abroad under diverse social, economic, and legal frameworks. This course is designed for researchers from diverse backgrounds performing research involving human participants.

Learn More about the MRCT Center's work in Protocol Ethics.   

Dr. Barbara Bierer, MD, faculty co-director of the MRCT Center at Harvard, represented the MRCT Center at the Global Clinical Research Summit 2015 held at the National Assembly Building in Seoul Korea earlier this month.   

The principles of and challenges in the regulatory framework of comprehensive and integrative medicine were discussed.  Dr. Bierer presented the MRCT Center approach to global harmonization, using, as examples, strategic initiatives to (1) achieve common standards for principal investigator competencies and (2) promote return of results to participants.  

Learn More about the MRCT Center's work in returning results to research participants.

Most volunteers who participate in clinical trials will never receive the results of the trial from the investigator. To improve this, the MRCT Center has developed a  Guidance Document and  Toolkit that provide practical guidance and sample templates for study sponsors and investigators to communicate aggregate results with study participants.

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