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Exciting news! The Global Health Network has had over 100,000 visits so thank you for your help and involvement in achieving this important milestone.
The Global Health Network was developed from Global Health Trials, which does a great job as the ‘flagship’ area of www.theglobalhealthnetwork.org by providing cross cutting guidance, tools, resources, e-learning and professional membership for everyone working in clinical research across all disease areas and regions.
The rest of the network has developed from this success and is now a thriving online science park for research communities in global health. The basic idea is to be a space for sharing methods, knowledge and skills in order to speed up research by streamlining processes and reducing duplication. This is working between and within disease areas as well as across regions and roles because it is a trusted and neutral arena for information sharing in health research.
The most recent addition is www.site-finder.org to enable groups to find collaborators and sponsors. The aim is to help researchers and sites diversify and take part in other studies with different partners and in different disease areas. It works well as a mechanism for research investigators and sites to promote themselves to funders and potential partners whilst enabling trial sponsors to search for new sites to work with. This was built from dating site technology! Please do sign up if you have not already.
Many thanks for your continued support and involvement. This is working because it is a highly active and open collaboration. Do please keep visiting the research networks on within this platform within all the areas as there is new material and information there every day.
Thanks to our Bill and Melinda Gates funding we are in the process of redesigning the look and navigation of the whole platform and building new tools such as a dynamic clinical study planning ‘app’. So watch this space and of course please do feedback if you have any suggestions, feedback or requests of tools that would benefit your area info@globalhealthtrials.org