The Good Clinical Practice Alliance (GCPA) & the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard are organizing a Preparedness Planning for Clinical Research During Public Health Emergencies (PREP) webinar on the theme “Examining synergies between regulators and ethics committees during public health emergencies“.
Date: Thursday, 4 March 2021
Time: 13:00-14:00 UTC
| Introduction to the webinar Professor Barbara Bierer, Professor of Medicine, Faculty Director, Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard, Coordinator: AVAREF & MRCT Center Ethics Training Course for AVAREF country-members’ NECs/IRBs & US Single IRB Review Project, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| The expectations of regulators for ethics committees during a public health emergency Dr Samvel Azatyan, Group Lead, Regulatory Convergence and Networks, World Health Organization WHO |
| Efficient and quality decision making for starting clinical trials during a public health emergency Dr Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, Director Neglected Tropical Diseases & Coordinator of the ANTICOV Clinical Trial, DNDi |
| What are the hurdles to cooperation between ethics committees and regulators during a public health emergency? Dr Aamir Jafarey, Professor, Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Pakistan; Member, National Bioethics Committee; Member, Clinical Studies Committee, Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) |
| Pathways to cooperation between ethics committees and regulators during public health emergencies: Present realities and future possibilities Dr Fergus Sweeney, Head, Vaccines Strategy Group & Head, Inspections and Human Medicines Pharmacovigilance Division, European Medicines Agency & Co-Chair, ICH E6(R3) GCP Expert Working Group |
| Experiences in the African region of cooperation between ethics committees and regulatory authorities on vaccine clinical trials during public health emergencies Dr Mimi Darko, CEO, Ghana Food and Drugs Authority; Chair, AVEREF Steering Committee |
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- Registration is not required: Event link (Passcode: 123)
