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The Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard, Division of Global Health Equity, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA are offering TWO free one-day workshops, one at Wits in Johannesburg, the other at UCT, Cape Town.
The workshops are entitled:Data monitoring committees, pharmacovigilance & vaccine development1-day training for clinical trial investigators & statisticians
Topics:
- DMC membership & responsibilities, monitoring for safety, efficacy & futility
- Important causality definitions, distinction between cause & correlation, case studies to assess causality
- Safety reporting processes
- Vaccine development
Workshop at Wits: 4 November 2015 (PPS Boardroom, 4th floor, Wits Medical School, Parktown: to rgeister email Nomfundo.sibiya@wits.ac.za by no later than 26 October 2015
Workshop at Cape Town: 6th November 2015 (New Learnign CEntre, Anatomy Building, UCT Faculty of Health Sciences, Anzio Rd, Observatory). Email tamzin@globalhealthtrials.org. to register
Attendance is free to both events, but prior registration is essential.
CLICK HERE to download a poster for the event
