This page allows you quick reference to topics that might interest you. We will update it as often as possible.
Career Development/Continued Professional Development (CPD)
- To view and join discussions about training and career development in clinical research, click here.
- You may also like to visit our free eLearning centre, which contains lots of certified eLearning courses about clinical research. You can use the Professional Membership Scheme to track your career development.
Community Engagement
- To view discussions on community engagement click here.
- For articles on community engagement click here.
Consent/Informed Consent
- For an eLearning course on taking informed consent, click here.
- For discussions on informed consent, click here.
- For articles on informed consent, click here.
Data Management
- For articles on data management, many of which include templates and SOPs which you are welcome to download and use, visit the data management articles, which you can access here.
- For discussions about data management, visit the discussion group, which also includes the popular 'Ask the Expert' month discussion.
- For a free eLearning course on data management, click here.
- You may also like to visit the data management-specific community available on the Global Health Network: the Assosciation for Data Management in the Tropics (ADMIT). You can navigate between any of the Global Health Network sites by using the grey button on the bottom left hand side of the screen.
Data Safety and Monitoring Boards (DSMB)
- For an eLearning course on DSMBs, click here.
- For a discussion on DSMBs, click here.
- For articles on DSMBs, please visit this article on Safety Reporting and this one on trial oversight committees.
Ethics
- To view articles on informed consent and ethics, click here.
- To view discussions on ethics, click here, and for community engagement click here.
- For a free, certified eLearning course on Informed consent, click here.
- You may also like to visit the ethics-specific communities available on the Global Health Network: Global Health Bioethics and Global Health Reviewers (for those involved in reviewing research). You can navigate between any of the Global Health Network sites by using the grey button on the bottom left hand side of the screen.
Field Trials
- For an extensive toolkit for conducting field trials in health interventions, click here.
Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
- To take an eLearning course in GCP, click here.
- to view a discussion about GCP training, click here, and about the applicability of GCP guidelines, click here.
- To view an article about regulations and guidelines, including GCP, click here.
Laboratories
- For an 'Ask the Expert' discussion about laboratories, click here.
- For other discussions about research laboratories click here.
- For an article about building a research laboratory, click here.
- For a 5-part eLearning course in malaria microscopy, click here.
Monitoring
- For articles related to monitoring, click here. This article in particular offers templates and SOPs.
- For discussions about monitoring, you can use the search (there are several), but there are some useful ones here (when monitoring should start), here (about training), and here (about quality assurance). The last of these provides lots of useful toolkits and links.
Protocol
- For eLearning courses on protocol writing, click here.
- For a discussion and useful resources, please click here.
- For an article and tool for developing protocols, please click here.
Quality Assurance
- For an overview of Quality Assurance and links to QA guidelines and documents, please click here.
- For guidelines on QA within qualitative research, click here.
- For discussions about QA in trials, click here and here.
Regulations and Guidelines
- To view regulation and guideline articles, click here.
Reporting
- For an article containing links to research reporting guidelines and tools, click here.
Training
- To view and join discussions about training and career development, click here.
- you may also like to visit our free eLearning centre, which contains lots of certified eLearning courses about clinical research. You can use the Professional Membership Scheme to track your career development.
Trial Design
- For articles related to trial design, click here.
Trial Management
- For articles related to trial management, please click here.
- For discussions about trial management, please click here.
Trial Registration
- For an article about what trial registration is, how to register your trial, and links to trial registries, click here.
- For an insightful article about managing clinical trials, click here.