Resources
There are already many resources that you can access across The Global Health Network to guide, teach, support and train you and your team in setting up and running high quality studies. Below you can see what can be accessed now.
Further resources will be developed specifically for the ALERRT community – please contact us via the contact page to suggest content you would find useful. There will also be regional meetings and workshops to identify training and development gaps. These needs will be addressed and the resources developed will be made available here and openly available for free to all. Please check back here as we add content regularly.
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If you are thinking about starting a research project, the following guidance will show you how to plan clinical research. Good study planning is essential, to avoid any unnecessary delays or missing data down the line.
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Agreements/contracts
Community engagement
Laboratory/pharmacy
Protocols
Study set-up
Site selection
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Prior to initiating a study/clinical trial, researchers must obtain approval from national regulatory authorities (NRAs) and ethics committees to conduct clinical trials. The ethics committees review the integrity of the protocol, because poorly designed studies that are either not needed or cannot answer the question are unethical.
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Tools to help you carry out your research.
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Logs
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
Monitoring
Samples
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Data collection is the process of gathering and measuring information on variables of interest, in an established systematic fashion that enables one to answer stated research questions, test hypotheses, and evaluate outcomes.
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Data capture
Query management
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Study-specific procedures and plans to facilitate the management of the research and can also be used in the event of an audit to justify the approaches taken.
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Tools to help you conduct your research.
Consent
Monitoring
Adverse events
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Through this facility research sites can register and let would-be collaborators and sponsors know about them, their previous experience and what type of research they would like to take part in. In turn, research groups wishing to find other sites to collaborate with can post their research plans and explain what they are looking for in terms of disease prevalence perhaps, or was facilities a research site has.
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These free, certificated and recognised courses are provided to give a general introduction to many of the key steps involved in setting up a study they include short topics such as Good Clinical Practice, Good Laboratory Practice and longer modular courses and cover many of the required steps such as setting the question, data management and community engagement. |
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The Process Map is a cross-cutting tool that guides the process of setting up a study and provides links to explanations about each component step and any tools, templates and training that exist on each step.
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Main resources:
Study design & planning
Ethics & Regulatory
Study Procedures
Data Collection, Management & Anaylsis
Study Operations
Further resources:
eLearning
Sitefinder
Processmap
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