The Clinical Research Initiative for Global Health

Supporting international collaboration on clinical research

CRIGH aims to optimise clinical research programmes, develop global standards on clinical research, promote the take-up of innovative methodology and technologies, and encourage international cooperation to rapidly and efficiently respond to global health challenges

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Recommendations for promoting international multi‐site clinical trials—from a viewpoint of ethics review

This paper presents the findings of a survey to understand differences in ethics review systems, and recommends ways to overcome obstacles and facilitate ethical, international, collaborative health research and clinical trials.

This work was led by the CRIGH Research Bioethics project, co-chaired by the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED), National Cancer Center Japan, and National Institutes of Health. 

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Money & Microbes: Strengthening clinical research capacity to prevent epidemics

This work is a product of the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect the views of The World Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the governments they represent.
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Improving the normalization of complex interventions: part 2 - validation of the NoMAD instrument for assessing implementation work based on normalization process theory (NPT)

Understanding and measuring implementation processes is a key challenge for implementation
researchers. This study draws on Normalization Process Theory (NPT) to develop an instrument that can be applied to assess, monitor or measure factors likely to affect normalization from the perspective of implementation participants.

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News

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Recommendations from the EDCTP/ECRIN session on clinical trial infrastructure and capacity building in Africa
March 02, 2022

Together with the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership  (EDCTP), ECRIN hosted a session at the Africa-Europe Science and Innovation Summit on 17 June 2021.  This session brought together key global health actors to collectively discuss lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and the next steps towards the comprehensive mobilization of all stakeholders for building sustainable clinical research preparedness and response capacities. It led to the development of 11 recommendations for capacity building and the development of a clinical research infrastructure in Africa.

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The 3rd CRIGH General Assembly
November 04, 2021

The General Assembly of the Clinical Research Initiative for Global Health Consortium (CRIGH) went virtual for its 3rd edition.

The CRIGH Consortium was launched in October 2016, as a follow-up to a prior initiative of the OECD Global Science Forum, to establish a global framework to accelerate international cooperation in non-commercial clinical trials and to promote evidence-based medicine. To date, CRIGH brings together more than 40 international stakeholders across the clinical research value chain on five continents.

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Events

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Partnering for the development of sustainable clinical research infrastructures and a skilled workforce in Africa
16 February 2022

This session is co-chaired by EDCTP and the European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN) and brings together key global health actors to collectively discuss the next steps towards the comprehensive mobilisation of all the stakeholders necessary for building sustainable clinical research infrastructure, skills development, and strengthening of institutions for the development and uptake of safe and effective R&I products in Africa. A set of recommendations on clinical trial infrastructure and capacity building in Africa arising from a session hosted by ECRIN and EDCTP on 17 June 2021 at the Africa-Europe Science and Innovation Summit will also be further discussed. Several panellists will take part in a policy roundtable on EU-AU research and innovation cooperation for the development of sustainable clinical research infrastructures and a skilled workforce in Africa. 

 

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