Webinar Objectives:
Gain a clear understanding of the essential steps and strategies to navigate the Canadian clinical trial environment successfully, including regulatory requirements
Learn effective techniques for creating comprehensive trial plans and budgets, while accounting for key factors
Discover the array of support networks and resources in Canada designed to streamline the trial process and foster collaboration
Webinar objectives:
Identify various funding strategies for pediatric and perinatal clinical trials in Canada, including academic grants and industry partnerships
Develop realistic expectations regarding the timeline and effort required to fund clinical trials through shared examples
Understand different strategies when approaching industry and academic funders and identify key factors for successful proposals
Webinar objectives:
Understand the significance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (EDI) in clinical trial teams and management practices, and how these elements contribute to improved research outcomes and participant experiences
Learn effective strategies for fostering a culture of inclusion within clinical trial teams, including communication techniques, conflict resolution approaches, and decision-making processes that prioritize diverse perspectives
Gain practical knowledge on implementing EDI principles when developing teams and clinical trials processes,with a focus on promoting fairness, accessibility, and representation across all phases of research
Webinar objectives:
Introduce effectiveness-hybrid designs, showcase examples, and outline important considerations for conducting these types of studies. It will also briefly summarize tensions that may occur in conducting implementation research and mention tools to support implementation planning and execution.
Webinar objectives:
We will explore best practice guidelines for researchers to build more equitable, reflective, and inclusive research and clinical trials with respect to gender and sex. We will touch briefly on a variety of topics including, participant eligibility, recruitment, sampling plans and data analysis, measurement of genders and sexes, responsiveness across time, and working with validated scales. The objective is to stimulate critical thought about effective integration of sex and gender in research and clinical trials and to offer some key resources for continued learning.
Webinar objectives:
Understand the role that historical and ongoing marginalization play in research participation
Discuss how research findings in homogeneous populations are not generalizable to all children
Describe research approaches that can improve diversity and inclusion in pediatric clinical trials
Webinar objectives:
Describe the challenges in generating high quality evidence about treatments for rare diseases
Summarize some of the strategies proposed to address these challenges, emphasizing the potential value of patient registries
Describe the features of registry-based randomized clinical trials and discuss the scientific and practical challenges associated with such trials
Summarize current guidance and emerging developments in designing and improving rare disease registries to support clinical trials
Webinar objectives:
Define patient/youth/family engagement as it applies to clinical trials
List three reasons why engaging patient/youth/family partners may be valuable to your clinical trials research
Discuss some tools and approaches to engage patient/youth/family partners with your clinical trials team